Example sentences of "[verb] not mean to suggest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although talking of the inevitability and necessity of crime , Durkheim did not mean to suggest the more crime the better . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I do not mean to suggest that Lewis thought that the Bible was only half true . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do not mean to suggest that Tillyard or Olivier simply undertook their tasks as part of some officially orchestrated propaganda . |
| 7 | I do not mean to suggest that this is an exclusively de Manian composite . |