Example sentences of "need not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A better way of life need not depend on a higher standard of living and they were out to stop those whose pursuit of continued economic and industrial growth undermined the basis of life itself . |
| 2 | The Anglican Church is being challenged today to put its own house in order , to show that its portrayal of truth need not end in a sterile liberalism or empty liturgical forms , but in a faith ‘ Catholic and Reformed ’ which , to misquote Gregory the Great slightly , is ‘ a faith large enough for elephants to swim in and little lambs to paddle with safety ’ . |
| 3 | the employer is not only provided with maximum assurance that his competitors will make the same settlement that he does ; he is also assured that his competitors will be shut down … when he is shut down , so that he need not reckon on a permanent reduction in market share when calculating the costs of a strike . |
| 4 | Yet what applies to a rat or dog need not hold for a human being . |
| 5 | Tomlinson in his commentary argues that this notion need not lead to a simplistic ‘ small is beautiful ’ position . |
| 6 | The combination of Germany 's loose asylum laws with 80 million Turks as citizens of the Union need not lead to a rigid common policy on immigration and residence ; it might instead lead to a flexible approach to these issues , allowing Member States to adopt policies in accordance with their own national needs . |
| 7 | The externally impressed voltage need not come from a time-varying magnetic field as in the previous section , it may be produced by a signal generator . |
| 8 | For example : each soloist need not begin with a formal bow to a king or to the audience , nor end with another bow or considered pose ; but such behaviour may be included if the choreographer wishes to locate dance in a particular century and probably a palace in which the story unfolds . |