Example sentences of "not mean that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , surveys will continue to be written about American painting or German art , British sculpture or Australian print-making ; this fact of publication does not mean that these activities have an inner coherence . |
| 2 | Levi 's explained intention does not mean that there is no autobiography in the book . |
| 3 | This does not mean that there is no cultural convergence at all between the two alliances in Ireland . |
| 4 | But that did not mean that the ethos of a Roman catholic state would be in any way diminished , only that the form of political religious power would be different . |
| 5 | To be HIV+ does not mean that a person has AIDS . |
| 6 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 7 | This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations . |
| 8 | Sure enough , we would expect the input systems to ensure that the right kinds of distinctions are drawn — between contour changes that define occlusion and those which define disappearance , for example — but this surely does not mean that the possessor of these input systems is capable of thinking about unperceived entities . |
| 9 | By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same . |
| 10 | This does not mean that only wellknown or straightforward subjects and themes are to be staged . |
| 11 | This does not mean that today 's choreographers need follow the conventions laid down by the Renaissance scholars who were more interested in the physical ability and behaviour of courtiers . |
| 12 | This does not mean that speed must be avoided , nor that the unexpected need offend the eye . |
| 13 | the dissolution of truth does not mean that no statements are true but only that there is no stable , unchanging absolute truth , and that certainty is persistently elusive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That he went grossly wrong in applying the standard does not mean that the standard as such was inapplicable . |
| 16 | But it will not mean that we are abandoning them . |
| 17 | This does not mean that anyone has necessarily suffered a dose of radiation exceeding safety limits . |
| 18 | Evidence of salmonella in chickens or in the hen house did not mean that the eggs were infected to levels that could cause food poisoning , he said . |
| 19 | But does this not mean that God has to be affected by what happens in the world and that the challenges and frustrations which the world 's freedom continually presents to Him force ever new responses from Him , so that He is continually changing ? |
| 20 | Capel 's presence here , though , does not mean that England — and Micky Stewart in particular — have shed their doubts about his ability to contain , and there was no evidence yesterday that Capel has yet acquired the mental capacity to try to bore people out in one-day cricket . |
| 21 | This does not mean that the vast provinces of Russia should be ignored , although they usually are . |
| 22 | This does not mean that they were entirely lacking , as will be seen later . |
| 23 | Yet if Eliot continued to remember his anthropological reading , this does not mean that his view of it remained unchanged . |
| 24 | But this does not mean that he is advocating head-hunting . |
| 25 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | This does not mean that in order to create you must be homosexual . |
| 28 | However the fact that she lost a few battles in Cabinet does not mean that she was not the dominant figure or that the Cabinet was supreme . |
| 29 | This did not mean that ideas and values came from some supernatural source , but it did mean that they came from the history of society , not the history of the individual . |
| 30 | If it is natural conditions of existence which are the basis of human history , this does not mean that human society and concepts are simply an automatic product or reflection of physical existence , as Feuerback and other ‘ vulgar ’ materialists seem to imply . |