Example sentences of "does [adv] mean [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regularly does not mean every other week . |
| 2 | Conservation , however , does not mean no work for architects . |
| 3 | No drilling , however , does not mean no dentistry . |
| 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 | But it ‘ does not mean a surrender of power ; rather it involves sharing of the knowledge which allows different interpretations and constructions to be placed on that information and which in turn can lead to a different conclusion and different solutions ’ . |
| 6 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 7 | My career , my ambition ‘ my dreams — and all that does not mean a fig to you ! ’ |
| 8 | Price stability does not mean a frozen economy in which no price ever moves . |
| 9 | His opposition and resistance to war as a means of solving problems is total and yet his adherence to the principle of ahi sā does not mean a failure to recognize that there might be situations of moral dilemma in which different moral considerations apply for different people . |
| 10 | The lower language level does not mean a low interest level |
| 11 | The time demanded in maintaining roses is not great , it does not mean a number of hours or days a week , but it does mean a regular tour around , if only of a few minutes ' duration , perhaps in the evenings , with secateurs in hand to snip or prune away faded flowers , and a puff or spray here and there as and when you find aphids or other pests . |
| 12 | Respect for the past does not mean a reliance on fiddle and washboard . |
| 13 | This does not mean a suspension of judgement and uncritical acceptance of the thief and murderer the Shipman is suggested to be in the General Prologue ( I : 388 – 410 ) ; a fitting teller for a graceless tale . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Diabetes mellitus does not mean the end of the world . |
| 16 | But that does not mean the repeal of all Conservative legislation , nor that unions should be immune from penalties . |
| 17 | But he said that does not mean the administration has ruled out the use of force in future efforts to oust the general . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | While the industry desperately needs to present a more united front to Government and the public , a single voice does not mean the loudest voice , which can drown contrary views . |
| 20 | This does not mean the idea would never work , buttressed perhaps by better antitrust enforcement . |
| 21 | But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two . |
| 22 | This does not mean the absence of struggle and effort , but the absence of anarchy and emotional fogginess and confusion . |
| 23 | This does not mean the genes concerned are not particulate . |
| 24 | It has to be understood that the general and critical does not mean the vague , the watered-down , or the journalistic . |
| 25 | That does not mean the council tax is particularly unfair , even though it will be a burden on many householders . |
| 26 | Naturally the poem does not mean the same thing for him as for Bilbo . |
| 27 | ‘ Mechanically propelled vehicle ’ does not mean the same as ‘ Motor vehicle ’ as defined in the glossary at page 2 . |
| 28 | Just because the building societies have a backlog of repossessed homes to flog off does not mean the rest of us should be forced to hang on until January for our rate cut . |
| 29 | That does not mean the south London crew have sold their souls for mainstream acceptance . |
| 30 | This does not mean the end of prints and weaves . ’ |