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Example sentences for "not necessarily"

  • I am of opinion, on the contrary, that they have done so in a very great degree, and by so doing have encumbered their theory with difficulties, and laid it open to objections, which do not necessarily affect it.

  • Just as we have seen that intercrossing is not necessarily good, we shall be forced to admit that close interbreeding is not necessarily bad.

  • The influence of the father's brother is not necessarily a mark of patrilineal tendencies, except in so far as all patria potestas is such.

  • It may be noted that promiscuity de jure, which is all that is implied by Morgan's hypothesis, is not necessarily also de facto promiscuity.

  • Free union, a relationship not recognised by the community as conferring rights, but at the same time not punished and not necessarily regarded as immoral.

  • Not necessarily," he objected, "for we are constantly reducing to order and routine what was once haphazard and uncontrolled.

  • Not necessarily; not thinking at all about it, perhaps.

  • Not necessarily gradual; and even if it were, still change.

  • A battered letter in the "type" will display its effects in both earlier and later copies alike, but a purely extraneous or acquired flaw in the first copy is not necessarily repeated in subsequent copies.

  • But it is perfectly certain that the two sets of effects do not necessarily correspond.

  • This is not necessarily maternal, as we see in the story of the heroic male baboon, who risked his life in saving a young one from a pack of baying hounds.

  • When the defense is able to judge or divine the character of the attack the feint is not necessarily parried, but may be nullified by a counter feint.

  • The line of observation is not necessarily continuous, but all avenues of approach must be carefully guarded.

  • It should be borne in mind that these conventional signs are not necessarily drawn to scale, as are the distances.

  • The proprietor of stock is properly a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

  • I answer, that the trade with the alehouse is not necessarily a losing trade.

  • But the real interest of the servants is by no means the same with that of the country, and the most perfect information would not necessarily put an end to their oppressions.

  • To hear is not necessarily to grant-- God forbid!

  • To be a child is not necessarily to be a son or daughter.

  • They will, it is hoped, learn that a merely fashionable neighborhood is not necessarily a desirable environment.

  • Not necessarily, although, if it came to a choice, much might be said for the practical studies in learning to live.

  • Merely doing a specified act, which has been required, is not necessarily an act of obedience.

  • Talking to a class is not necessarily teaching.

  • That abstinence is not necessarily an act of obedience.

  • Yet disgust is a matter of taste, we cannot properly impart it into our laws; a disgusting person is not necessarily a criminal person, or we shall have to enact that many inmates of our hospitals and lunatic asylums be hanged.

  • It must, however, be pointed out that it is a sudden and unstable prosperity, not necessarily a gradual and stable prosperity, which is hereby shown to be pernicious.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both here; not afraid; not altogether; not exactly; not guilty; not here; not less; not let; not mistaken; not necessarily; not really; not see; not that; not there; not unlike; not wishing; not your; nothing against; nothing doing; nothing less; nothing loth; nothing remarkable; nothing that; peace establishment; relation between; similar character