Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] mean that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not necessarily mean that the churches opposed alleviation of pain , but it did mean that the ministrations of the pastor were much more important than those of the physician , and those of the latter should not be permitted to interfere with the spiritual task of the former . |
| 2 | Adoption of this route , however , did not necessarily mean that the association would defy the police in order to march on it . |
| 3 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 4 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 5 | Non-appearance on the ward does not necessarily mean that the clinical teacher has overslept or is sitting , feet up , drinking cups of tea . |
| 6 | The fact that the drug 's manufacturer had proposed a tightening of safeguards did not necessarily mean that the committee should agree to them . |
| 7 | But a constant real wage does not necessarily mean that the money wage is constant . |
| 8 | N.B. A higher classification does not necessarily mean that the quality of what is provided is higher than that available in an establishment with a lower classification . |
| 9 | This does not necessarily mean that the cholesterol is the cause , or certainly not the sole cause , of heart attacks . |
| 10 | There 's no doubt that means plain knitting on the basic chunky machine but this does not necessarily mean that the finished items have to be dull . |
| 11 | Yet these divergences did not necessarily mean that the Plantagenet dominions were an incoherent and ‘ overextended ’ political , economic , geographical and cultural agglomeration . |
| 12 | The fact that the adventure story has always been very largely the province of male writers does not necessarily mean that the female characters in such fictions will be less ‘ real ’ than the heroes or villains . |
| 13 | However , the fact that a dictionary is in machine-readable form does not necessarily mean that the required information is instantly available — pre-processing may be necessary to organise the information . |
| 14 | This does not necessarily mean that the program needs modifying — indeed it could be a positive sign that the unit can respond to a wide range of teaching styles . |
| 15 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 16 | As we shall see in the following chapter , this does not necessarily mean that the interests of farmers and landowners are no longer dominant in rural society , but it does mean that this dominance has increasingly to be carried out by reaching an accommodation with these new conditions . |
| 17 | This does not necessarily mean that the customer is always right , but it does mean that the customer forms the starting point for the organization 's corporate strategy . |
| 18 | The awareness provision would not necessarily mean that the defendant in Parkin v. Norman lacked sufficient mens rea . |
| 19 | The potential to produce ever more sophisticated reports and analyse and measure against every type of performance indicator does not necessarily mean that the firm will take action to correct profitability problems or reduce work in progress or collect debts more quickly . |
| 20 | ‘ Ideology ’ , for Castells , does not necessarily mean that the Chicago School is in an absolute sense ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 21 | The fact that costs are uncontrollable does not necessarily mean that the budget-holder would not be asked to find savings to cover uncontrollable increases . |
| 22 | As I shall argue in Chapters 6 and 7 , this does not necessarily mean that the socialist or communist countries are ‘ going capitalist ’ , though it does highlight changing relationships between the global capitalist system and its alternatives . |
| 23 | ( Note that the final line ‘ LIFESPAN DATABASE FILE CREATION COMPLETE ’ does not necessarily mean that the database has been correctly created ) . |
| 24 | In particular it is important to appreciate that while the Americans frequently accused the British of old-fashioned colonialism , this did not necessarily mean that the spokesman or writer was wholly ignorant of the evolution of British imperial policies since Queen Victoria . |
| 25 | What is clear is that the word oppressive does not necessarily mean that the defendant has been induced to enter the restriction by fraud , misrepresentation , deceit or forced to enter it by duress . |
| 26 | Although we have identified a recognition sequence for the DNA-PK , this does not necessarily mean that the kinase is unable to recognise other types of sequence . |
| 27 | ‘ Primary ’ does not necessarily mean that the visit must be arranged first chronologically : the ‘ Secondary ’ period can happen first if that is more convenient . |
| 28 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 29 | A ‘ life sentence ’ does not usually mean that the prisoner is kept in prison until he or she dies ( although it may ) , but lifers are only released at the discretion of the Parole Board and the Home Secretary . |
| 30 | Bearing in mind that even if an employer 's action amounts to constructive dismissal , this does not always mean that the dismissal will automatically be unfair . |