Example sentences of "mean [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and financial constraints , as well as a recent rapid increase in student numbers ( 90 in 1991 , 125 in 1992 ) , mean that we can not make this as wide-ranging as we would like . |
| 2 | As ever , time constraints meant that we could n't try absolutely everything , and so the Bass Centre 's manager Martin Gravestock agreed to guide us through the popular models within our categories , and we chose random examples from there . |
| 3 | ‘ I simply meant that we should not have fish so unfailingly , on a regular day of the week , in future . ’ |
| 4 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 5 | So I think erm there is there is a difference between us in all of that , but that need n't necessarily mean that we wo n't identify a site in the future . |
| 6 | there were pressures coming on the company which would mean that we could not continue to do that |
| 7 | This would mean that we could n't predict anything . |
| 8 | If a client can not be regarded as a corporate finance client it does not mean that we can not act on his behalf . |
| 9 | It will mean that we can not shape the institutions to which subsequently we shall have to submit . |
| 10 | Jesus ' resurrection means that we will not die , not in the sense of eternal death . |
| 11 | Branches should avoid merely asking the insured to obtain estimate(s) or quotation(s) unless the type of claim or the remoteness of the location means that we can not make use of our own local or national arrangements with traders . |
| 12 | However , although literature in general and certain works in particular would seem to support Derrida 's claims about the principle of différance in language , the very nature of those claims means that we can not regard literature as being a special kind or use of language . |
| 13 | Firstly , the divergence of function and form means that we can not rely upon teaching only form . |
| 14 | At the same time the poverty of our sources on this issue means that we can not come anywhere near making an informed guess at the extent of the estates of any one king . |
| 15 | As we have noted earlier , the lack of any data on transfers within the family means that we can not look at some of the interesting questions concerning the distribution between individuals ( e.g. , between men and women ) . |
| 16 | Yes , in fact we shall be going again this week , and I have no doubt , once again this week , we , we 'll be overlapping into another bay , but er unless we use the coach car park , er which means that we could n't take children who were n't really able walkers , so in fact we would be discriminating against our own children , er I really ca n't see what else we can do . |
| 17 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 18 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 19 | Creating our own reality is sometimes interpreted as meaning that we can not hurt people unless they allow us to do so . |