Example sentences of "[noun] do [not/n't] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that the Owsla 's privileges did n't mean all that much to me in any case and that a strong rabbit could always do just as well by leaving the warren . |
| 2 | These guidelines do n't mean you ca n't experiment and find out what feels right for you with another person . |
| 3 | Surely Cunningham did not mean to pretend nothing had happened . |
| 4 | Although talking of the inevitability and necessity of crime , Durkheim did not mean to suggest the more crime the better . |
| 5 | Okay , bully things , possibly in , in isolation do n't mean very much , put them over there . |
| 6 | President Fidel Castro Ruz in his address to the conference again ruled out a multiparty political system for Cuba and stressed that the encouragement of inward investment did not mean the end of the country 's brand of state-led communism . |
| 7 | But more important , once the semantics of the two constructions is examined , the hypothesis of meaningless variants must be ruled out once and for all : the two constructions do not mean the same thing . |
| 8 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
| 9 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 10 | Mummy did n't mean those things . |
| 11 | Well the teabags do n't mean anything to us really |
| 12 | the teabags do n't mean anything to us |
| 13 | ‘ Two years ago , our lovemaking did n't mean anything to you and now this marriage means damn all . |
| 14 | A baby carriage Do n't mean a marriage — |
| 15 | In use , the 305 feels good , and my enjoyment of it was probably helped by subconscious relief that any accidental misuse did n't mean joining the Foreign Legion until the importers forgot my name ! |
| 16 | Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them . |
| 17 | Effective study does not mean reading twice as fast ( one measure of efficiency ) or writing twice as much in a given time period ( another measure of output over input ) . |
| 18 | The sheer mass of words does not mean that research is inspiring . |
| 19 | Wearing a miniskirt does n't mean you 're a tart ; tracksuits do n't necessarily mean you 're sporty ; dungarees do n't make you a feminist ; and shaving your legs does n't mean you 're unsussed . |
| 20 | However , aggression in the horse does not mean that he will be aggressive or hostile towards us . |
| 21 | Being on the safe side does n't mean throwing financial caution to the wind . |
| 22 | That the situation may not be anyone 's fault does not mean that no sacrifices are required . |
| 23 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 24 | The fact that several types of relatives can be called by the same term does not mean that they can not be distinguished . |
| 25 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |
| 26 | What 's gone on in the media these past six months does n't mean a thing . |
| 27 | Just because Carol 's wearing that ring does n't mean I 'm ready to get out my fucking pipe and slippers , either . ’ |
| 28 | The fact that they show little grief does not mean they are unmoved , but they may have been less inclined than are many women to see their relationship with their partner as the fulcrum of their lives . |
| 29 | Proper delegation does not mean abandoning the person . |
| 30 | This data does not mean that absolute wages are higher , because in the early years wages in Japan are relatively low . |