Example sentences of "not [adv] necessary [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin .
2 It is not usually necessary to attempt to reproduce the conditions of a particular market .
3 It is not always necessary to create very detailed parse representations .
4 When using an oval frame it is not always necessary to use a mount , and an oval shape can suggest several attractive designs .
5 NOW that several of his own teeth have lost their crowns , and the fillings beneath have deteriorated , Kenneth Anusavice wishes his mother had known what today 's studies have shown : that not all cavities call for immediate fillings and that it is not always necessary to replace fillings that break down because of wear and tear .
6 A damaging hit from a mortar causes D3 wounds , but as most creatures have only 1 wound it is not always necessary to take this dice roll .
7 However , several cases have determined that it is not always necessary to give a Ghosh direction .
8 The causes of cancer are still obscure , but it is not always necessary to know the cause of a disease in order to cure it or even to prevent it .
9 As we have already said , it is not always necessary to know very much about the individual identity of the sender or receiver , but only certain general facts about his or her social relation to us .
10 It is not always necessary to have the entire object — a broken piece of the rim of a plate can give us nearly as much information as the entire plate could have done .
11 It is not always necessary to plug a gap or fill every pause with music and there are points at which silence has significance .
12 Where the wife and new husband are to hold as beneficial joint tenants it is not strictly necessary to incorporate an express power of sale and purport to extend the powers of the trustees of the conveyance in the conveyance since the Law of Property Act 1925 ( ss35 and 36 ) already implies that they will hold upon the " statutory trusts " .
13 In the circumstances it is not strictly necessary to answer the second question ( i.e. the third issue listed above ) , but in case this case goes further I will do so briefly .
14 It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy .
15 But although it is not now necessary to visit the long row of sea-front cottages , Shieldaig is far too good to be bypassed .
16 Traditionally , however , indoor bulbs are planted in shallow ceramic or plastic bowls without drainage holes , but it is not really necessary to use specially designed containers .
17 However , it is not really necessary to understand exactly what imaginary time is — just that it is different from what we call real time .
18 It is not really necessary to locate the degree of premeditated dishonesty involved in the politics of policy formulation .
19 I can use my cousin 's servants , his furniture and his carriages , it 's not even necessary to send an announcement .
20 It was not even necessary to remove hir underwear before Alix started yelling .
21 It is not however necessary to decide the point in the present case , and in any event cases of this kind are generally the subject of statutory régimes which legislate for the circumstances in which money so paid either must or may be repaid .
22 It was not therefore necessary to ask whether or not the conduct was justifiable or otherwise .
23 The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest .
24 It is not absolutely necessary to group your programs but , in the interests of good organisation , programs are easier to locate when placed in logical groups .
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