Example sentences of "does not [vb infin] [that] it is " in BNC.

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1 They maintain that there could be circumstances in which disobedience is justified even though the law itself does not admit that it is .
2 The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so .
3 The fact that this idiom , which was never spoken on sea or land , is NOT fit for use in the new poetry of 1933–4 does not mean that it is unfit for use in a translation of a poem finished in 1321 .
4 Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect .
5 If a horse is sensible it does not mean that it is plain and ordinary — like an old pair of shoes — rather , being sensible is exactly that .
6 To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised .
7 This chapter is about selecting a home , but that does not mean that it is valueless if you already have a home .
8 And just because the fish lives in the water with it , does not mean that it is going to eat it — it would be like you eating mouldy food .
9 The fact that ahi sā is regarded as the law of the human species does not mean that it is an easy matter to practise it .
10 Just because it is a necessary last resort for one refused instruction does not mean that it is necessary for another .
11 In this sense , Kant argues , ‘ the dog can not judge ’ , which does not mean that it is fair game for any purpose we might devise .
12 The apparently well-founded discovery that AZT is not a useful drug for the treatment of people infected with HIV does not mean that it is useless in the treatment of those with AIDS .
13 But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls .
14 In contrast , verbs are particularly frequent in the passage ( 5 ) ; but this does not mean that it is full of action .
15 This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it .
16 Just because a road runs past a group of Bronze Age burial mounds does not mean that it is prehistoric .
17 Simply because the egalitarian society has yet to become a reality does not mean that it is not possible .
18 This does not mean that it is the product of labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narration and the mastery of style ) but the very theatre of a production where the producer and reader of the text meet : the text ‘ works ’ , at each moment and from whatever side one takes it .
19 And remember , just because a lender brings out a loan with the ‘ professional ’ as its target market , this does not mean that it is necessarily the right one for you , no matter what your taste in trousers .
20 However , this does not mean that it is wrong .
21 This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management .
22 to the parties does not mean that it is costless .
23 The fact that the beer has been produced in a different way does not mean that it is therefore harmful , and so on .
24 The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society .
25 Just because the regional dimension has not received the attention afforded to monetary union , that does not mean that it is less important to our future economic well-being .
26 The available body of existing tempo evidence may appear to Neumann to be slim , but this does not mean that it is insignificant .
27 Bear in mind that any speed limit is a maximum , it does not mean that it is safe to drive at that speed , always take into account all the conditions at the time , never drive so fast that you can not stop well within the distance you can see to be clear .
28 ( b ) Provided the the kind of damage is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that it is more extensive than could have been foreseen .
29 He does not recognize that it is possible to alternate between the two according to the stage of industry development , and Gilbert and Strebel ( 1988 ) illustrate how some companies do outpace others in the industry on both cost and quality .
30 At present , Josephson is unable to offer an explanation of psychic energy and its effects but he does not doubt that it is ‘ positive , a genuine phenomenon ’ .
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