Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1	The fact that a position is highly rewarded does not necessarily mean it is functionally important .
2	which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way
3	Understanding what is written or spoken does not merely involve understanding the meaning of individual words plus their syntactic and semantic relationship within a sentence .
4	To assert that all normal human behaviour is culturally moulded does not necessarily prove that it is also culturally determined .
5	‘ The revelation that Libya was involved does not necessarily mean that previous allegations against Syria and Iran are false , ’ said Anat Kurz , of the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv .
6	The vehicle illustrated does not accurately reflect UK specification .
7	The fact that literal retaliation by bodily mutilation was legally allowed does not necessarily mean it was practised .
8	Nevertheless , just because a lot of objections are received does not automatically mean an application will be refused .
9	In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect .
10	Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society .

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