Example sentences of "[be] [conj] necessary " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Thirdly it is true , as the judgments in the Court of Appeal point out , that ex parte applications are frequently made to the courts and granted without hearing the party affected : but merely to say this overlooks that procedure invariably exists , and is where necessary invoked , for enabling the party affected rapidly to seek annulment or amendment of the order made against him .
2 Burrows believes that smacking is as necessary as kissing and cuddling , and finds it ironic that the same kind of arguments about parents not knowing when to stop are used to undermine our instincts in both cases .
3 In the British and the American cases it is as necessary to contextualise the production of knowledges about the inner city as it is to unpack the glossary of terms of urban regeneration used in contemporary political discourse .
4 For that a settled ethical character is as necessary as is intelligence itself .
5 In 1641 an attorney of the Council in the Marches , Richard Lloyd , defending that court against its enemies , claimed that ‘ it is as necessary for princes to have places of preferment to prefer servants of merit as money in their Exchequer ’ .
6 For a firm to succeed it is as necessary to efficiently manage its knowledge resources as it is its labour and capital .
7 He is dead , the world he knew has died too , and we have other roads to build , but his humility before nature , his sympathy for the suffering and the blind , and his sense of proportion are as necessary now as they ever were .
8 The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities .
9 Some longer-term , less detailed targets and stabler financial regimes for services are as necessary as Plowden recognised them to be .
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