Example sentences of "i do not mean [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art . |
| 2 | In making these remarks , I do not mean to argue that the decisions made in cases discussed in section II are necessarily wrong . |
| 3 | I do not mean to defend myself . |
| 4 | I do not mean to deny all that has happened — there are some beautiful modern buildings . |
| 5 | In calling these examples ‘ routine ’ , I do not mean to deny their importance to the receiver , nor that they may be very demanding for the giver . |
| 6 | I do not mean to distinguish here between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ ; nor am I arguing , on the basis of such a distinction , that ‘ education for leisure ’ is just as important as ‘ education for work ’ , a thesis often defended by those anxious to justify education in sports or indeed in the arts . |
| 7 | I do not mean to stray off here into the history of the Basques ; all Pyrenean history is complicated , that of the Basques very complicated . |
| 8 | Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food . |
| 9 | I do not mean to endorse pragmatism . |
| 10 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 11 | But then I do not mean to imply anything derogatory about Mr Farraday ; he is , after all , an American gentleman and his ways are often very different . |
| 12 | I do not mean to imply that engineering should or could be an exact discipline . |
| 13 | In arguing that the instrumental response is quite proper in some circumstances I do not mean to imply that it always can operate . |
| 14 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 15 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 16 | I do not mean to suggest that Lewis thought that the Bible was only half true . |
| 17 | I do not mean to suggest for a moment any kind of determinist philosophy here : functional rationality does not cause philosophical rationality , but it does help it along . |
| 18 | I do not mean to suggest that in every literal generation trees are taller than their counterparts in the previous generation , nor that the arms race is necessarily still going on . |
| 19 | I do not mean to suggest that Tillyard or Olivier simply undertook their tasks as part of some officially orchestrated propaganda . |
| 20 | I do not mean to suggest that this is an exclusively de Manian composite . |