Example sentences of "not mean [conj] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please could you also ensure that the delay in making this request does not mean that the work is excessively held back . |
| 2 | To engage thought does not mean that the thought is contained within the work itself ; it means that the thought is contained in the dialogue the work engenders in relation to its place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | First , that a system is headed by a president does not mean that the system is presidential ! |
| 5 | To say this , of course , does not mean that the consent is not binding on the agent . |
| 6 | Clearly , however , that does not mean that the City is riddled with fraud or that the regulatory system has failed . |
| 7 | Just because it is 21°C ( 70°F ) beside the hotel swimming pool does not mean that the weather is the same in the hills — it may well be raining there or the mist may be descending . |
| 8 | But that does not mean that the sale is not a retail sale to which the section applies or that the ordinary retail selling price is not the price at which the record is ordinarily sold , in this case 1s. 6d . |
| 9 | The fact that the employer ‘ only sells a patented product to one customer and therefore [ the employer 's ] existence depends on sales of that product does not mean that the patent is of any benefit . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Efficiency ’ does not mean that the market is sufficiently clairvoyant to gauge the cash flow of General Motors for the next 30 years or more . |
| 11 | But that does not mean that the rule is built into our language itself and as such must eternally be every speaker 's rule . |
| 12 | This does not mean that the group is clandestine but rather that it has other characteristics of a conspiracy ; in particular , common purpose and internal communication on significant issues . |
| 13 | 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 . |