Example sentences of "we do not mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 2 | Moreover , when we speak of the perceived function of reformed monasteries , we do not mean primarily their economic functions as efficient optimizers of agrarian wealth , or even their cultivation of knowledge and production of books . |
| 3 | When we say that Beaver is giving away an iceberg we do not mean a lettuce . |
| 4 | Similarly , when we say that all biologists nowadays believe in Darwin 's theory , we do not mean that every biologist has , graven in his brain , an identical copy of the exact words of Charles Darwin himself . |
| 5 | If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect . |
| 6 | In late 1917 , proclaiming Labour 's new commitment to ‘ the democratic control of industry [ through ] the common ownership of the means of production ’ , Arthur Henderson pledged the Party to ‘ strenuously resist every proposal to hand back to private capitalists the great industries and services that have come under Government control during the war … we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . ’ |
| 7 | When we say , ‘ I feel a pain in my foot ’ we do not mean that we have observed or witnessed something , and hence we do not mean that we have observed or witnessed something as being in a certain place . |
| 8 | When we say , ‘ I feel a pain in my foot ’ we do not mean that we have observed or witnessed something , and hence we do not mean that we have observed or witnessed something as being in a certain place . |
| 9 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 10 | We do not mean a freedom that can be enjoyed by one man or one set of men at the cost of a loss of freedom to others . |
| 11 | On the other hand , we do not mean to deny that such intelligence may act according to law ( that is to say on a preconceived and definite plan ) . |
| 12 | of what we do not mean , up against the skin , |
| 13 | By this we do not mean to imply that any old interpretation will do because , clearly , there are standards involved in any inference from the data materials to the theory , be this a substantive sociological theory or what we have referred to as an instrumental theory . |
| 14 | The observations which we shall make can be directly linked to an account of the overall possibilities of English grammatical structure ; by this we do not mean to speak of the paradigmatic relationships between different clauses , but of the syntagmatic relations which construct the clause itself . |
| 15 | Now Brian when we talk about expansion we do not mean capacity that has n't been provided that is not currently in , we accept the expansion has been already occurred in the South East of the |
| 16 | When we say that individuals have a right to be protected against assault , we do not mean that this protection must be achieved through some particular scheme we already have in mind . |