Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It will be better , perhaps , if she does not wholly know that the will is in question . ’
2 A different reader will spot them quickly , and newspapers and publishers employ people one of whose jobs it is to pick out the " literals " ( slips ) made by writers , typists and typesetters : readers do not necessarily assume that the editor or journalist ca n't spell if they find a printing error .
3 One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency .
4 The contract of supply must be a complete agreement ( see Scammell and Nephew Ltd v Ouston [ 1941 ] AC 251 ) , although this does not necessarily mean that every part of the contract has been worked out in meticulous detail .
5 This does not necessarily mean that a diversity of penal aims is ruled out , but each of the different aims must be justified by the same general philosophy if our position is to be coherent .
6 However , merely because safer products are subsequently produced , this does not necessarily mean that a product was defective when put into circulation ( s4(1) ( d ) ) .
7 An increase in unit costs does not necessarily mean that a pupil gets proportionately more resources or better educational provision , as some costs are fixed ( such as heating and cleaning ) and they simply rise for each pupil as the school roll falls .
8 Second , the occurrence of a strong global correlation between GNP and temperature does not necessarily mean that a cooler , more seasonal climate inherently favours socio-economic development ; it is arguable that such a relationship could be a fortuitous consequence of the high-latitude origins of modern industrialization , with that situation subsequently maintained by political and financial structures that have generally been disadvantageous to tropical nations .
9 Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it .
10 It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim .
11 This does not necessarily mean that the cholesterol is the cause , or certainly not the sole cause , of heart attacks .
12 The fact that the drug 's manufacturer had proposed a tightening of safeguards did not necessarily mean that the committee should agree to them .
13 In particular it is important to appreciate that while the Americans frequently accused the British of old-fashioned colonialism , this did not necessarily mean that the spokesman or writer was wholly ignorant of the evolution of British imperial policies since Queen Victoria .
14 But a constant real wage does not necessarily mean that the money wage is constant .
15 The potential to produce ever more sophisticated reports and analyse and measure against every type of performance indicator does not necessarily mean that the firm will take action to correct profitability problems or reduce work in progress or collect debts more quickly .
16 This does not necessarily mean that the customer is always right , but it does mean that the customer forms the starting point for the organization 's corporate strategy .
17 The fact that costs are uncontrollable does not necessarily mean that the budget-holder would not be asked to find savings to cover uncontrollable increases .
18 N.B. A higher classification does not necessarily mean that the quality of what is provided is higher than that available in an establishment with a lower classification .
19 ( Note that the final line ‘ LIFESPAN DATABASE FILE CREATION COMPLETE ’ does not necessarily mean that the database has been correctly created ) .
20 The awareness provision would not necessarily mean that the defendant in Parkin v. Norman lacked sufficient mens rea .
21 What is clear is that the word oppressive does not necessarily mean that the defendant has been induced to enter the restriction by fraud , misrepresentation , deceit or forced to enter it by duress .
22 This does not necessarily mean that the program needs modifying — indeed it could be a positive sign that the unit can respond to a wide range of teaching styles .
23 ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years .
24 ‘ Primary ’ does not necessarily mean that the visit must be arranged first chronologically : the ‘ Secondary ’ period can happen first if that is more convenient .
25 Although we have identified a recognition sequence for the DNA-PK , this does not necessarily mean that the kinase is unable to recognise other types of sequence .
26 Adoption of this route , however , did not necessarily mean that the association would defy the police in order to march on it .
27 But they do not necessarily conclude that a thing is no more than the sum of its attributes .
28 The latter do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event actually occurs : ( 173 ) Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far .
29 This makes let very different from allow and permit , which do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event is realized : in ( 212 ) and ( 213 ) above , they even evoke a state of permission as existing before any realization of the act for which permission has been given , something which is absolutely impossible with let .
30 ( It should be pointed out that , if a region 's GDP per head declines as a proportion of UK GDP , it does not necessarily imply that the region 's GDP per head has declined in absolute terms , but only in comparison with that of the UK . )
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