Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In other cases , however , no biochemical difference between the parental cell and the mutant could be pointed out , suggesting that alterations causing lack of transcription do not necessarily involve a defect in the DNA recognition of a transcriptional factor . |
| 32 | A fall in the interest rate on bonds , for example , will lead to an individual rearranging his wealth portfolio , but this will not necessarily involve a shift from bonds to money ( as in the Keynesian case ) ; it may involve a shift from bonds to some other financial asset or into property . |
| 33 | This does not necessarily involve a search for new inventions , but , rather , a concerted shortening of the lead-time between the inventions and their implementation in the form of new innovations . |
| 34 | They point out that services need to be aware of carers ' histories and their responses to stress , and that retirement may not necessarily increase a person 's ability or willingness to become an informal carer . |
| 35 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 36 | This does not necessarily imply a chase and no evidence of an attack was found when the Roman town at Casterton was excavated in the 1950s . |
| 37 | It should be noted , however , that to accept the retrieval-failure account of latent inhibition does not necessarily imply a rejection of all other theories of the phenomenon . |
| 38 | To say that the stance is one of knowing does not necessarily imply a belief in ‘ objectivity ’ ; the process may be thought of as a hermeneutic , interpretative one in which objective knowledge is not possible . |
| 39 | The selected object is surrounded by a rectangle , which forms the background but does not necessarily have a border , and these tiles can then be arranged as required , used as fills or combined with the clipping function . |
| 40 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
| 41 | They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service . |
| 42 | However , the fact that the other local minima found by the algorithm were all less than 0.15% greater than this value indicates that the path length would not necessarily have a minimum coinciding with the best probe order in other data sets containing many repeats , a fact illustrated by chromosome III . |
| 43 | The new city does not necessarily have a bishop or a cathedral . |
| 44 | Unlike the cross-shareholdings seen in America in the era of Pierpont Morgan , the links are not usually between competitors so do not necessarily indicate a cartel . |
| 45 | To call an activity , or aspects of an activity , or even a person ‘ professional ’ is not necessarily to apply a seal of approval . |
| 46 | Secondly , marginal cost pricing in natural monopoly does not necessarily require a subsidy . |
| 47 | Still there , but not necessarily making a profit . |
| 48 | Although many patients in this group had abnormal results , both fast and slow emptying , the characterisation of an abnormality of gastric emptying in a patient with non-ulcer dyspepsia does not necessarily provide a key to effective treatment . |
| 49 | The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction . |
| 50 | The need to keep the client informed does not necessarily include a need to send out a copy of every item of correspondence . |
| 51 | Anti-road campaigners called for the government to guarantee long-term protection for Oxleas Wood and pointed out that the change of mind did not necessarily signal a change of policy , with the government 's £23,000 million roads programme continuing to threaten 160 sites of special scientific interest , many of them more valuable than Oxleas Wood . |
| 52 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 53 | Failure to mark out explicitly the structural organisation of what a speaker wishes to communicate may make the addressee 's task of interpretation more difficult , perhaps , but , by itself , would not necessarily constitute a failure to communicate . |
| 54 | New funding arrangements for community care will not necessarily put a stop to such perverse incentives and may indeed provide further scope for cost shifting . |
| 55 | Gascoigne suspected that MacArthur wanted a peace conference to take place because it would convey the impression of activity to the Japanese but that MacArthur did not necessarily desire a treaty to emerge from it . |
| 56 | We would not necessarily seek a contribution from the previous insurers where the remedial work required to rectify the damage occurring whilst we are on cover has swamped any pre-existing damage . |
| 57 | To establish a correlation is not necessarily to establish a connection . |
| 58 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 59 | Even if he had brought his kingship pure and intact back from Rome and launched a holy crusade such as apostles dream of , two years is not enough to sew a kingdom together . |
| 60 | One of the lessons we learned early on from QES was that it 's not enough to appoint a number of specialist trainers , brilliant though they may be , and expect them to lead change . |