Example sentences of "does not mean " 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 | there must be , there has to be a separation between Church and State and we totally endorse and emphatically reiterate that , but the separation between Church and State does not mean a separation between conscience and the electorate 's responsibility in voting . |
| 5 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 6 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 7 | This does not mean pitching violently to get weightlessness or negative ‘ g ’ . |
| 8 | To be HIV+ does not mean that a person has AIDS . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This does not mean , however , that young children are realists ‘ across the board ’ . |
| 13 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |
| 14 | This does not mean that only wellknown or straightforward subjects and themes are to be staged . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This does not mean that speed must be avoided , nor that the unexpected need offend the eye . |
| 17 | Diabetes mellitus does not mean the end of the world . |
| 18 | But an unmetaphorical America in The Possessed does not mean an unwitty treatment of suicide . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That he went grossly wrong in applying the standard does not mean that the standard as such was inapplicable . |
| 22 | But that does not mean the repeal of all Conservative legislation , nor that unions should be immune from penalties . |
| 23 | Martin Smith , of Brighton Kemptown , protested : ‘ We want a Labour government , but that does not mean to say that we are going to meekly accept inadequate policies and an economic policy that is doomed to failure . ’ |
| 24 | She does not need nurses in uniform , she almost shouts : just because she is disabled , it does not mean she is medically ill . |
| 25 | But he said that does not mean the administration has ruled out the use of force in future efforts to oust the general . |
| 26 | This does not mean that anyone has necessarily suffered a dose of radiation exceeding safety limits . |
| 27 | That does not mean plummeting house prices — the old adage about most people simply refusing to move rather than sell their house for less than they paid for it remains as true as ever . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | To some extent the difference between this view and the developmental approach is one of semantics : the term ‘ global company ’ does not mean the same to each . |
| 30 | This does not mean that the vast provinces of Russia should be ignored , although they usually are . |