Example sentences of "not necessarily [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ toughness ’ of plants is not necessarily a characteristic of either angiosperms or gymnosperms. as it seems that plants struggling to make themselves ever more unpalatable , grew ‘ tougher ’ as time passed .
2 ( Brilliance is not necessarily a difficulty here , since brightness drops with distance in nature , and so less bright distant landscapes would look normal . )
3 The search space is not necessarily a tree , because properties may be added to the two sets in various orders depending on the order of training instances .
4 Its nodes are all like WISARD 's RAM chips , but the interconnections between them are arranged so that the nodes are in a layered partial order , not necessarily a tree .
5 But in order to do this , it is necessary to have the backing of a majority of the shareholders who would vote on the issue ( not necessarily a majority of the shareholders ) .
6 The authority will be purchasers and enablers of care , but not necessarily a provider of care .
7 It is not necessarily a sign that a child is especially aggressive .
8 The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) .
9 They often had this sort of conversation , and Constance always made allowances for Scarlet 's naivety : such slowness on the uptake was the result of a sheltered background and not necessarily a sign of limited intelligence , though she sometimes wondered .
10 Not necessarily a favour .
11 A person who is responsible for stringing a keyboard instrument is not necessarily a person who feels comfortable about manipulating numbers by formulas .
12 Geoff Nicholas has proved that being disabled is not necessarily a handicap on the golf course .
13 Hard conditions were not necessarily a bar to enjoying hostel life as Martha Levy discovered :
14 The initial problem is that Major is a Conservative and Clinton is a Democrat , and although party differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship , the problem has been compounded by two incidents during the US election campaign .
15 Pearce ( 1988 ) , writing about the use of touch in an intensive care unit , differentiates between instrumental touch ( deliberate , physical contact needed to perform a specific task such as washing a patient or dressing a wound ) and expressive touch ( a relatively spontaneous and affective contact which is not necessarily a component of a physical task , such as holding a patient 's hand during a painful procedure ) .
16 First , apart from certain transitional arrangements you will need an approved degree ( not necessarily a law degree , though that gives you the advantage of providing you with examination exemptions ) .
17 It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties .
18 It is not necessarily a case of Russian versus Western temperament .
19 Although some patients may develop serious complications such as fistulas , pelvic sepsis , pouchitis , and strictures the outcome in these patients is not necessarily a catastrophe and some enjoy remarkably satisfactory pouch function at least in the medium term .
20 Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye .
21 Dr Hardiman of Stirling points out that the Veterinary Record 's formula for estimating the weight is , if not necessarily a bummer , slightly flawed .
22 It is true that some attention is normally indicated and this may involve a certain amount of expense , though not necessarily a king 's ransom .
23 If Labour MPs are known to have views which are not necessarily a reflection of the opinions of Labour voters , less attention can be paid to them .
24 Not necessarily a diary , but perhaps a note of particular answers to prayer , special acts of guidance , amazing experiences of provision ?
25 The outward religious respectability of the leading personalities of the Enlightenment in Spain is not necessarily a proof of their innocence of real hostility to the Church : the Inquisition , weak though it was , combined with stiff royal censorship to make the public expression of heterodox views an impossibility .
26 by knowingly making a false report to … ( specify person , not necessarily a constable )
27 ‘ by knowingly making a false report to … ’ ( specify person , not necessarily a constable ) This point has to be proved and in common with other offences where ‘ what a person knows ’ has to be proved difficulties can arise .
28 Protectionism it seemed , was not necessarily a hindrance and could even be a help in the transformation of an economy .
29 HIGH BIDS are given here , these indicate where bidding stopped and not necessarily a sale :
30 Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward .
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