Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] do [not/n't] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In those days , balance sheets and profit and loss accounts did n't mean all that much , ’ he explains . |
| 2 | Avoiding trouble in self-defence terms does not mean lying low and limiting your lifestyle . |
| 3 | Just because a road runs past a group of Bronze Age burial mounds does not mean that it is prehistoric . |
| 4 | Of course , the fact that structure and rules are to be found within the behaviour of football hooligans does not mean that there are no problems at football terraces and that such behaviour is to be condoned . |
| 5 | They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory . |
| 6 | Yeah , but I mean paper qualifications do n't mean anything really but that 's what people want , they want to see that you 've got |
| 7 | However : ‘ In context , the absence of clear sentence boundaries does not mean that conversation is difficult to follow : it just shows that conversation is organised in a different way from writing ’ ( Leech et al. , p. 8/7 ) . |
| 8 | Because the faculty receives an excess of applications over places available , having the grades listed in the table of course requirements does not mean that a place will necessarily be offered . |
| 9 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |
| 10 | Germany 's Chancellor Kohl defends the European Exchange Rate Mechanism saying recent turbulence on the currency markets did not mean the system should be scrapped . |
| 11 | Germany 's Chancellor Kohl defends the European Exchange Rate Mechanism saying recent turbulence on the currency markets did not mean the system should be scrapped . |
| 12 | The prefix " horse " in many plant names does not mean that the plant is a particularly delectable food as far as those animals are concerned ; it did in fact evolve from " coarse " , and in this case served to separate the plant from the one which actually supplied a radish root . |