Example sentences of "it [verb] not mean that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This means that ideas can not be abstract , but it does not mean that they can not be general . |
| 4 | It does not mean that we have been made righteous as if we are perfect and free from sin , because our daily experience will tell us of the power of sin ; but it does mean that we are declared righteous . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her craving for advice with a Thatcherite spin on it does not mean that the Prime Minister will automatically diminish Civil Service contributions as flowing from a tainted source . |
| 7 | It does not mean that maggots are the best bait for bream . |
| 8 | That is a pity , perhaps , but it does not mean that everyday language is bad ; it is imply the way of things that language is not alive unless it is vernacular , because the adornments and abbreviations are the adornments and abbreviations of human thought . |
| 9 | This criterion means that a great deal of fundamental science such as elementary particle physics or astronomy would not qualify for our support ; but it does not mean that we avoid contact with scientists working in these fields . |
| 10 | Although some of these financial benefits are hard to measure , it does not mean that they are not real . |
| 11 | Man may be distinguished from the animal by his capacity for non-violence , but it does not mean that he has shed all vestiges of the animal in him . |
| 12 | ‘ It does not mean that chartered accountancy is not attracting as many people as before — demand is still as high , but there just are n't the training places available . ’ |
| 13 | Although there is evidence that those who choose to learn sign language after the age of 30 years will not reach the level of understanding of those who begin earlier ; and although there is a declining performance as the age of sign language learning increases , it does not mean that all those over the age of 30 years can not learn BSL , nor that they will be unable to communicate . |
| 14 | Printing in black tends to be the least expensive as it does not mean that the machinery needs cleaning of black ink . |
| 15 | However , just because a person is called , for example , ‘ manager ’ , it does not mean that the task-leader role automatically goes with the title . |
| 16 | While this is to some extent true , it does not mean that workers in small firms are not expected to show family-style loyalties . |
| 17 | However , although women are no longer as exclusively confined to the private world of the family , it does not mean that their work within the family is valued any more highly or indeed that there is less of it . |
| 18 | The value of cash benefits to the poor should not be minimised or dismissed , but it does not mean that relative deprivation is removed . |
| 19 | Our success in Europe means that we can reassess what we need to do to defend ourselves ; it does not mean that we can lower our guard . |
| 20 | Even when children encounter facts in books or are told the ‘ correct ’ explanation , it does not mean that they will necessarily believe them . |
| 21 | But it does not mean that , with some ingenuity , you can not set a detective story , or almost any of its variants and successors , at some period in the past . |
| 22 | It does not mean that God has failed to give any indication of his person through ‘ the moral law within and the starry heaven above ’ . |
| 23 | It does not mean that the Holy Spirit can not work on men of other faiths and draw their inner longings to Christ.John Taylor , in The Go-Between God , says rightly , ‘ The eternal Spirit has been at world in all ages and all cultures making men aware and evoking their response , and always the one to whom he was pointing and bearing witness was the Logos , the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world . |
| 24 | It does not mean that the person at whom the conduct is directed must believe that it is likely that violence will be provoked . |
| 25 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 26 | If a client can not be regarded as a corporate finance client it does not mean that we can not act on his behalf . |
| 27 | Just because I do n't go around laughing my head off all the time or … or spending money on bunches of flowers too big to fit into the car , it does not mean that I am cross . ’ |
| 28 | If details of our list are published in a program , it does not mean that Leeds are endorsing the list as official . |
| 29 | It is a matter for the parties to decide how the lawyer should determine the issue , and the fact that a lawyer is to determine it does not mean that the procedure has to be an arbitrationa lawyer can act as an expert . |
| 30 | It does not mean that an expert 's decision would be disallowed on the ground of conflict of interest : actual partiality would have to be shown . |