Example sentences of "mean [that] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeding most species of marine fish is not therefore as simple as it may seem and even if a fish feeds eagerly , it does n't necessarily mean that it 's eating the right food . |
| 2 | Even though I make fun of it , and it 's not my favourite music , that does n't mean that it 's less valid than bands who last a long time , especially if it is enjoyed . |
| 3 | very clear , you 've got two officers with shotguns , do you mean that it 's just he gave his shotgun to him and vice versa or you nominated two different shotguns ? |
| 4 | The fact that this idiom , which was never spoken on sea or land , is NOT fit for use in the new poetry of 1933–4 does not mean that it is unfit for use in a translation of a poem finished in 1321 . |
| 5 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 6 | If a horse is sensible it does not mean that it is plain and ordinary — like an old pair of shoes — rather , being sensible is exactly that . |
| 7 | To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised . |
| 8 | Finally , if an animal is coping with extremely adverse conditions by self-narcotisation , I would say that its welfare is poor but the effect of the narcotic may mean that it is not suffering . |
| 9 | It seems , though , that even if you are being reasonable in refusing to agree to a change , that does not necessarily mean that it is unfair to push the change through and dismiss you because of your reluctance to go along with it . |
| 10 | Just because it is so common that it is regarded as ‘ normal ’ to expect chronic ill health with advancing years does that mean that it is the way things have to be or , indeed , should be ? |
| 11 | This chapter is about selecting a home , but that does not mean that it is valueless if you already have a home . |
| 12 | And just because the fish lives in the water with it , does not mean that it is going to eat it — it would be like you eating mouldy food . |
| 13 | The fact that ahi sā is regarded as the law of the human species does not mean that it is an easy matter to practise it . |
| 14 | Since the BFS is non-degenerate this can only mean that it is not efficient . |
| 15 | Having said this , I do n't mean that it is the job of women to re-educate men . |
| 16 | But just because something can be used wrongly does n't mean that it is wrong in itself . |
| 17 | Just because it is a necessary last resort for one refused instruction does not mean that it is necessary for another . |
| 18 | In this sense , Kant argues , ‘ the dog can not judge ’ , which does not mean that it is fair game for any purpose we might devise . |
| 19 | It could mean that no stimulus is present or it could mean that it is in the wrong position . |
| 20 | As a former minister of justice in Sweden remarked , ‘ I do not mean that it is wrong to ‘ humanize ’ the stay in prison — but a cage is still a cage , even if gold-plated' ( Ward 1979 ) . |
| 21 | The apparently well-founded discovery that AZT is not a useful drug for the treatment of people infected with HIV does not mean that it is useless in the treatment of those with AIDS . |
| 22 | The irregular appearance of this material does not necessarily mean that it is amorphous , as lattice images depend on the direction of the electron beam . |
| 23 | First , to say that a body has a ( legal ) power to do X may mean that it is ( legally ) entitled to do it . |
| 24 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 25 | In contrast , verbs are particularly frequent in the passage ( 5 ) ; but this does not mean that it is full of action . |
| 26 | Well , it says on the bottom of the , your copy of the charge sheet , production of driving license you must produce it , failure to produce it will mean that it is automatically suspended and it also means you 've committed yet another offence by not having a driving licence here to produce Mr ! |
| 27 | Failure to produce it will mean that it is automatically suspended and it also means you 've committed yet another offence by not having a driving licence here to produce Mr . |
| 28 | This must mean that it is able to visualise the relationship in space of all these paths to one another . |
| 29 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 30 | In the novels of Dickens , slum housing invariably goes upon crutches , but that does not necessarily mean that it is advanced in years . |