Example sentences of "do [adv] mean [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not mean a lack of thought about the philosophical agenda behind . |
| 2 | Speaking in this sense did not mean a pleasant filial initiative on the telephone . |
| 3 | This did not mean a slavish copying of mediaeval motifs , but rather that the style would provide a basis from which a future architecture would develop , using modern materials and techniques . |
| 4 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 5 | But he said the machine did not mean a return to the days of the mid-1980s when his company made huge profits from new computer equipment . |
| 6 | The vice-president of the self-declared Bosnian Serb Republic , Nikola Koljevic , said the Serbs had agreed to allow an airlift to evacuate the seriously wounded from Srebrenica but the agreement did not mean a permanent air link could be established with the Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia . |
| 7 | However , Mr Gorbachev made clear this did not mean the entire relationship between the two Germanys had to be frozen for ever . |
| 8 | It did not mean the burglary was not talked about over Christmas lunch — it certainly was ; it became part of the event , and is now alluded to as ‘ Do you remember when … etc. etc . ’ |
| 9 | Customs spokesman John Barber said this did not mean the drugs teams were prevented from carrying out their vital work . |
| 10 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 11 | However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes . |
| 12 | Lack of writing , however , did not mean the absence of creative composition in words : in every native community recitation was prized , and oral traditions , often partly historical , were highly developed , as , for example , in the Yakut epics known as olonkho . |
| 13 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |
| 14 | Where was she going ? she asked herself , and by that she did not mean the waterways stretching out ahead . |
| 15 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 16 | President Fidel Castro Ruz in his address to the conference again ruled out a multiparty political system for Cuba and stressed that the encouragement of inward investment did not mean the end of the country 's brand of state-led communism . |
| 17 | The end of the French wars did not mean the end of warfare among Englishmen . |
| 18 | Although the damages were shared the fact that an agreement had been reached with one of them , did not mean the debt was cancelled . |
| 19 | Germany 's Chancellor Kohl defends the European Exchange Rate Mechanism saying recent turbulence on the currency markets did not mean the system should be scrapped . |
| 20 | Germany 's Chancellor Kohl defends the European Exchange Rate Mechanism saying recent turbulence on the currency markets did not mean the system should be scrapped . |
| 21 | Mr McCormack said this did not mean the barrage project was dead . |
| 22 | Mr McCormack said this did not mean the barrage project was dead and buried . |
| 23 | Mr Smith , who drew up the report into purchasing powers , said the moves did not mean the end of existing district health authorities . |
| 24 | Nevertheless an important principle had been established , that clinical autonomy did not mean an automatic right to use public monies without scrutiny or limits . |
| 25 | I do not mean a sexual strength — of that I have little — but a union of all my senses simply carries me past all reflection , sometimes into a beautiful ease , sometimes into filth and futility … but always I am passive . |
| 26 | When we say that Beaver is giving away an iceberg we do not mean a lettuce . |
| 27 | We should constantly be aware that when most people use the term ‘ mixed race ’ they do not mean a child of Indian and African parents , nor a Chinese and a person of African descent , they generally mean the child of a white person and any other person who is not white . |
| 28 | We do not mean a freedom that can be enjoyed by one man or one set of men at the cost of a loss of freedom to others . |
| 29 | These people seem to forget that results do not mean a thing in football and are only of secondary interest to a manager . |
| 30 | The words ‘ unconditional contract ’ therefore do not mean a contract without conditions in the sense just referred to , i.e. important terms of the contract ( see Chapter 7 ) . |