Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheer mass of words does not mean that research is inspiring . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | What 's gone on in the media these past six months does n't mean a thing . |
| 5 | The imbalance between the parties does not mean that all disputes ought to be resolved in court , rather it suggests that there may be methods of organising dispute resolution which are fairer for the parties involved . |
| 6 | to the parties does not mean that it is costless . |
| 7 | Because most kids nowadays are brought up with constant noise of traffic and so covering ears does n't mean anything does it ? because they 're gon na get the information and absorb much more information none of it , none of any use but so do n't get much information from . |
| 8 | That hours of work were stated for many trades does not mean that they were always worked to the full . |
| 9 | The fact that no one is given command in the green movements does not mean that no one stands out among the ruck . |
| 10 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
| 11 | Being responsive to parents does n't mean the development of a situation where ‘ parent always knows best ’ about the education of the children and the way that the school should be run . |
| 12 | I mean , just because you do n't have chips does n't mean to say you can stop taking potatoes . |
| 13 | The recognition that the assumption of the effectiveness of law may turn out to be false in all or at least specific areas does not mean that all legal activity in relation to international law is worthless . |
| 14 | As the UNCTC notes , ‘ the sharp decline in FDI flows to developing countries does not mean that TNCs have been ignoring those areas . |
| 15 | Just because data satisfy expectations does not mean that they are correct . |
| 16 | Under the Transport Act 1985 , local authorities had a duty to pay regard to the transport needs of the elderly and disabled , but merely having to pay regard to those needs does not mean that anything has to be done about the specifications that have been laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee . |
| 17 | Leys , for example , argues that the fact that the colonial state apparatus had to subdue opposition from pre-colonial ruling classes does not mean that it would inevitably be overdeveloped by the time of dependence , because ‘ by that time the capitalist mode of production had been introduced , and made effectively dominant , in the colonial social formation ’ . |
| 18 | Many such whales , however , do produce powerful vocalizations and their lack of such structures does not mean that they are not equipped with some other , equally well-designed , auditory and echo-locating system . |
| 19 | The decline in parliamentary support for Eastern Europe 's economic reforms does not mean that those reforms are failing |
| 20 | Note that the ‘ write-once ’ nature of the assumptions does not mean that an item may never be re-used . |
| 21 | Just because the distribution of this information may be restricted to your own staff or a close circle of customers does n't mean that you should n't pay attention to its style or presentation , far from it . |
| 22 | Just because a road runs past a group of Bronze Age burial mounds does not mean that it is prehistoric . |
| 23 | In our country to exchange gifts does not mean the same thing . |
| 24 | But it is vital that supporting such ventures does not mean playing into the hands of the wrong people and so enabling exploitative interests to pluck the fruit of poor people 's toil and initiative . |
| 25 | The prefix " horse " in many plant names does not mean that the plant is a particularly delectable food as far as those animals are concerned ; it did in fact evolve from " coarse " , and in this case served to separate the plant from the one which actually supplied a radish root . |
| 26 | Avoiding trouble in self-defence terms does not mean lying low and limiting your lifestyle . |
| 27 | Just because Australia has two great 21-year-old centres does n't mean every rugby-playing country does . |
| 28 | Scaling down your work in the way that is required for creating successful miniatures does not mean putting just one or two flowers in a smaller frame than usual . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the existence of such divisions does not mean that we have to talk of a multi-party system ; rather , it seems better to talk of two parties , both representing a broad spectrum of political viewpoints which nevertheless remain recognisable as either Whig or Tory . |
| 30 | However : ‘ In context , the absence of clear sentence boundaries does not mean that conversation is difficult to follow : it just shows that conversation is organised in a different way from writing ’ ( Leech et al. , p. 8/7 ) . |