Example sentences of "not necessarily [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The policy as expressed does not necessarily exclude development outside the area specified but directs development areas as a primary consideration .
2 Such wealth of opportunity does not necessarily make life any easier .
3 Though these documents do not necessarily show evidence of cost-effectiveness thinking being employed in their production , they are the first sign that market forces are having an impact .
4 The section is intended to give the police power to impose conditions on ‘ coercive ’ marches which will not necessarily give rise to disorder ; a National Front march through a predominantly Asian district may well prompt many of the citizens simply to board up their properties and remain indoors .
5 Twenty-four hours have indeed passed , but the end of a day does not necessarily mean sleep .
6 The constant repetition by European politicians in the past few months that Maastricht will not necessarily mean change may have been tactically expedient , but squaring the circle in which the EC has snared itself requires , on the contrary , upheaval , not just in research policy .
7 Correlation , of course , does not necessarily mean causation .
8 The Japanese term hai is literally translated as ‘ yes ’ , although it can also mean ‘ I see ’ or ‘ I understand ’ and does not necessarily mean agreement .
9 Dworkin uses the process work approach , which operates on the theory that a predilection for certain substances and behaviours might not necessarily mean addiction .
10 Unlike many other coral types , mechanical damage does not necessarily mean death for leather corals .
11 But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat .
12 It is also worth remembering that an increased assessment does not necessarily reflect prosperity ; there is evidence of considerable urban decay , for example , at Coventry , despite the town 's greater tax liability .
13 However , because refrigerators will not necessarily chill food down to the required temperature , plenty of establishments have become reliant on blast chillers to attain 0 to +5 degrees C levels in a short space of time .
14 Nonetheless , the mere fact that the buyer has inspected the goods does not necessarily preclude reliance .
15 Seniority does not necessarily denote competence in all procedures .
16 Though the technology that telecoms and computer firms use is similar , success in telecoms services does not necessarily bring success in the computer , or telecoms-hardware , business .
17 Listing , in theory , is an objective assessment of architectural or historical importance which does not necessarily prevent demolition .
18 However , not all languages have a grammatical category of number , and those that do do not necessarily view countability in the same terms .
19 Numerical strength does not necessarily confer power , but in Whitehall it has always counted towards influence .
20 In context , grammaticality does not necessarily ensure acceptability or coherence .
21 While integration in Europe can be seen as a response to this process , globalization does not necessarily promote co-operation .
22 Recklessness does not necessarily involve dishonesty .
23 In a minority situation , some form of power-sharing — even if it did not necessarily involve coalition — was inevitable .
24 Consequently , the registration of a vessel does not necessarily involve establishment within the meaning of the E.E.C .
25 It should be noted at this stage , however , that democracy might be a ‘ desirable output ’ of an organization , in which case its production at the expense of other outputs would not necessarily involve inefficiency .
26 It is difficult to measure the success of such share and savings schemes in stimulating UK industry since any increase in share ownership by employees does not necessarily improve company performance per se ( Griffiths 1990 ) .
27 effort alone will not necessarily produce performance .
28 It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions , for example the rack and thumbscrew , which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country , are abhorrent to any civilised society , but that they and other less awful , though not necessarily less potent , means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth .
29 It must be pointed out , however , that rejection of this aspect of the human capital theory does not necessarily imply rejection of its main claims , i.e. that education or health contribute to economic growth .
30 They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism .
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