Example sentences of "[pron] do not mean that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having said of the poet in The Use of Poetry that ‘ I do not mean that he should meddle with the tasks of the theologian , the preacher , the economist , the sociologist or anybody else ’ , that was just what Eliot went on to do . |
| 2 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 3 | By this , I do not mean that the animal uses neurones , whereas the computer uses transistors . |
| 4 | The irony is that Angus Wilson is , in the best sense , an experimental writer , by which I do not mean that he makes holes in the page or shuffles his paragraphs around . |
| 5 | I do not mean that they do not differentiate between dog and man , only that we have become integrated into their already existing , instinctive mental-behavioural patterns . |
| 6 | After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary ’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines . |
| 7 | I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind . |
| 8 | As a former minister of justice in Sweden remarked , ‘ I do not mean that it is wrong to ‘ humanize ’ the stay in prison — but a cage is still a cage , even if gold-plated' ( Ward 1979 ) . |
| 9 | By this I do not mean that the question of criteria is unimportant , or that the distinction remains meaningful even if there are no ontological objects at all to which it might be applied . |
| 10 | I do not mean that Lily suddenly lost all reserve . |
| 11 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |
| 12 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |
| 13 | I do not mean that a self-conscious conventionalist would ignore statutes and precedents altogether once it was controversial what force these should be given . |
| 14 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They note in using the term " sufficient condition " that they do not mean that the condition-set is genuinely sufficient for the occurrence of the effect . |