Example sentences of "[vb -s] n't mean [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning a display does n't mean sticking rigidly to a formal design . |
| 2 | Being on the safe side does n't mean throwing financial caution to the wind . |
| 3 | Does n't mean does n't worry me . |
| 4 | oh yes , look mum it does n't mean does it cos he does n't like it I ca n't have some stewing beef |
| 5 | ‘ Eating for the benefit of your health does n't mean chewing your way through mounds of bran and raw carrots . |
| 6 | This does n't mean seeing wealth as our main goal in life , or as a guarantee of security and happiness ; nor does it mean being wasteful and extravagant . |
| 7 | Her real mum gave her a lot of support , and so did I. But supporting her does n't mean hiding what I think . |
| 8 | Learning by discovery does n't mean reinventing the wheel each time you need to move the wagon . |
| 9 | This does n't mean exposing yourself so that you become vulnerable . |
| 10 | It does n't mean pretending you can not see the peeling wallpaper and moth-eaten curtains , and going wild with a credit card . |
| 11 | This does n't mean straining yourself — at every age we can manage some things better than others . |
| 12 | If you can sell biscuits , you can probably sell crisps , but it does n't mean to say that if you can sell these you can sell dresses or bicycles . |
| 13 | But just because Club 18–30 is a great place for meeting people and making new friends of either sex , it does n't mean to say that those people who already have someone special in their lives ca n't come and join in the fun as well . |
| 14 | At another house where an officer asked about the aerial on the roof , the owner replied : ‘ I 've got a bottle of milk on the doorstep , but that does n't mean to say I 've got a cow in the kitchen . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I am sure that Michelle would rather John had n't been married to Alison , but that does n't mean to say she is going to go out and murder her , let alone involve her much-loved sister in the crime ’ . |
| 16 | But because they do n't say it to my face , it does n't mean to say I do n't still get them : now they say things behind my back . |
| 17 | ‘ I know today now there are some good degrees and goodness knows what for the job , but it does n't mean to say you can do the job . |
| 18 | Just because , therefore , there are fewer women in physics than in English , does n't mean to say that they are any worse off : the opposite may be true . |
| 19 | Many carers , I have heard say , time and time again , that they feel guilty even asking they did n't even know they had a right to ask , well this legislation now allows people to ask , does n't mean to say their needs are gon na be met , but at least it gives them a right to ask . |
| 20 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 21 | But that does n't mean to say that I ca n't be absolved of that . |
| 22 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 23 | So it does n't mean to say that you only behave at one end or the other . |
| 24 | Because your friend can do some fantastic things it does n't mean to say your muscles will , you could be in trouble . |
| 25 | It does n't mean to say the water po pressure will be increased at the moment , because the final connection to the fifty mil water main is still the narrow gauge . |
| 26 | And merely because you did n't tell them her new name and address does n't mean to say they 'll stop looking . ’ |
| 27 | Now it does n't mean to say of course that there were only seventeen people in |
| 28 | Well I would , I would , I would just comment that there er in profits have er have it does n't mean to say that we wo n't have some profits from our estate at Thurrock because there are other areas of land involved , but they wo n't be so substantial and for B-Sky-B I would turn to Frank . |
| 29 | Which does n't mean to say we wo n't have substantial erm P and L er contribution fro from B-Sky-B . |
| 30 | It does n't mean to say that we are not on the , alert and on the look out and er , I think those opportunities erm , er , will still occur and that er , we will be involved . |