Example sentences of "i do [not/n't] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse . |
| 4 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 5 | If it were 20 per cent greater , there would be no less dissatisfaction and unfulfilled demand at the margin ; if it were 20 per cent less — I do not mean if it were reduced by 20 per cent but if it were now 20 per cent less than it actually is , nobody would be the wiser . |
| 6 | ‘ Having said of the poet in The Use of Poetry that ‘ I do not mean that he should meddle with the tasks of the theologian , the preacher , the economist , the sociologist or anybody else ’ , that was just what Eliot went on to do . |
| 7 | I do not mean of course that there is no tradition of love in marriage . |
| 8 | By this , I do not mean mat Lewis has represented the medieval picture as ‘ better ’ than the modern ; but he has shown us that both are merely pictures . |
| 9 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 10 | I do not mean a sexual strength — of that I have little — but a union of all my senses simply carries me past all reflection , sometimes into a beautiful ease , sometimes into filth and futility … but always I am passive . |
| 11 | ‘ When I deny things in an existence out of the mind , I do not mean my own mind in particular , but all minds . |
| 12 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 13 | By this , I do not mean that the animal uses neurones , whereas the computer uses transistors . |
| 14 | The irony is that Angus Wilson is , in the best sense , an experimental writer , by which I do not mean that he makes holes in the page or shuffles his paragraphs around . |
| 15 | I do not mean to deny all that has happened — there are some beautiful modern buildings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do not mean you should love them any less , but discipline is very important and must be started from the outset . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art . |
| 20 | Could it be that a degree of PMS ( I do not mean suicidal or murderous tendencies ) is a perfectly reasonable response by a healthy reproductive system to the unnatural state of non-pregnancy ? |
| 21 | By that I do not mean than one can not pin them down to set feeding patterns on specific waters . |
| 22 | I do not mean to imply that engineering should or could be an exact discipline . |
| 23 | I do not mean that they do not differentiate between dog and man , only that we have become integrated into their already existing , instinctive mental-behavioural patterns . |
| 24 | I do not mean just dating by this ; there are all sorts of relationships that you can enter into that are just on a one-to-one basis . |
| 25 | I do not mean the church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity , terrible as an army with banners . |
| 26 | After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary ’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines . |
| 27 | I do not mean by that someone who stands in front of a class of children , but a person who is able to pass on wisdom and knowledge to others . |
| 28 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 29 | I do not mean to suggest that Lewis thought that the Bible was only half true . |
| 30 | 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 . |