Example sentences of "did [adv] necessarily [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In his book Poetic Diction he had pointed out that in earlier times , those who first used language did not necessarily distinguish between ‘ metaphorical ’ and ‘ literal ’ uses of words .
2 That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity .
3 The work with the Hypertext book did not necessarily identify a set of link types that were either generic to producing a book or to the topic of hypertext .
4 In a minority situation , some form of power-sharing — even if it did not necessarily involve coalition — was inevitable .
5 Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each .
6 Anyway , since the English language , not unlike its speakers , and the climate in which it was reared , did not necessarily adhere to the principles of predictability , even had the thought of the good Earl occurred to me , I may st ill not have surmised that it gave proof positive one way or the other re the acceptable pronunciation of the Square 's Christian name .
7 The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them .
8 Yet this did not necessarily make him ‘ an outsider in English society ’ , readily employed by Edward II against the magnates .
9 THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing .
10 This did not necessarily mean that all local party chiefs in the minorities were also lethargic during 1922 .
11 ‘ We ’ , McLeish remembered from Francesca , did not necessarily mean this administration but must mean one of the same political persuasion .
12 At first , this stress on ‘ natural religion ’ , as it was called , did not necessarily mean the abandonment of Christianity as revealed in the Scriptures ; so long as it was not inconsistent with reason , it could be accepted .
13 This did not necessarily mean that the churches opposed alleviation of pain , but it did mean that the ministrations of the pastor were much more important than those of the physician , and those of the latter should not be permitted to interfere with the spiritual task of the former .
14 The Prince began to be talked about though this did not necessarily mean that he was being taken seriously as a political alternative to the regime of Louis-Philippe .
15 Adoption of this route , however , did not necessarily mean that the association would defy the police in order to march on it .
16 However , his failure to leave before 6 February 1981 did not necessarily mean that he had ‘ waived ’ the breaking of his contract .
17 The fact that the drug 's manufacturer had proposed a tightening of safeguards did not necessarily mean that the committee should agree to them .
18 A shared language between parents and professionals did not necessarily mean shared attitudes .
19 This did not necessarily mean that they took a very exalted view of their own importance .
20 Yet these divergences did not necessarily mean that the Plantagenet dominions were an incoherent and ‘ overextended ’ political , economic , geographical and cultural agglomeration .
21 Examples would be the abandonment in the later eighteenth century of figured bass and of optional parts in favour of completely written-out orchestral scores ; and the writing out of vocal ornamentation by Rossini , followed by other nineteenth-century Italian opera composers , instead of leaving it to be improvised — though this did not necessarily mean that singers followed their instructions !
22 Being poor , she knew from experience , did not necessarily mean being without taste .
23 She argued strongly that nineteenth-century feminism had neglected women 's need for love and a family life ( although this was by no means wholly the case ) and that sexual equality did not necessarily mean ‘ sameness ’ .
24 Social services were more closely involved through their provision of home care services , although this did not necessarily mean that a social worker was appointed .
25 Those corps came into existence in the early 20th century , when it was discovered that attendance at university did not necessarily mean an ability to lead troops .
26 This did not necessarily mean that de Gaulle already took for granted that self-determination would lead to an independent Algerian state .
27 This did not necessarily mean a dramatic change in the substance of French policy : in its last phase the Fourth Republic had asserted French independence through a nuclear policy and a far from submissive attitude towards the US and Britain .
28 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 .
29 He conceded there was less reading of ‘ non-purposeful ’ material , such as comics , but added that this did not necessarily mean there was less literacy .
30 There was a robust denial of those allegations from Borders Regional Council 's assistant education director , Kenneth Paterson , who said the temporary closure did not necessarily mean a permanent shutdown .
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