Example sentences of "do not mean [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean a sexual strength — of that I have little — but a union of all my senses simply carries me past all reflection , sometimes into a beautiful ease , sometimes into filth and futility … but always I am passive . |
| 2 | When we say that Beaver is giving away an iceberg we do not mean a lettuce . |
| 3 | We should constantly be aware that when most people use the term ‘ mixed race ’ they do not mean a child of Indian and African parents , nor a Chinese and a person of African descent , they generally mean the child of a white person and any other person who is not white . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These people seem to forget that results do not mean a thing in football and are only of secondary interest to a manager . |
| 6 | The words ‘ unconditional contract ’ therefore do not mean a contract without conditions in the sense just referred to , i.e. important terms of the contract ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 7 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 8 | I do not mean the church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity , terrible as an army with banners . |
| 9 | and again : " when I make use of the word people , I do not mean the vulgar or mixed multitude " . |
| 10 | The notoriously atheist and materialist Holbach was explicit about whom he meant by " the people " : By the word people I do not mean the stupid populace Every man who can live respectably from the income of his property and every head of a family who owns land ought to be regarded as a citizen . |
| 11 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
| 12 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 13 | But more important , once the semantics of the two constructions is examined , the hypothesis of meaningless variants must be ruled out once and for all : the two constructions do not mean the same thing . |