Example sentences of "not mean that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , this does not mean that every past tense in an English text can be translated into Japanese with a -ta form or that every present or future tense can be translated using a -ru form .
2 [ But this does not mean that a primary business group has to be kept together as a unit for example , polymers research on fibres is carried out at Wilton , but that on spinning at Gloucester . ]
3 The fact that a transmitter substance has been found does not mean that a new drug has been discovered .
4 Perkin 's placing of the critical moment in the last quarter of the eighteenth century does not mean that a new demand for manufactured goods suddenly made an impact on the British economy around the time of the American Revolution .
5 The Labour manifesto did not refer to the issue , but that did not mean that a Labour government would not legislate on it .
6 Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ .
7 Because really big bream are too much of a mouthful for even the biggest pike does not mean that a big bream has lost its natural , cautious instinct .
8 I do not mean that a self-conscious conventionalist would ignore statutes and precedents altogether once it was controversial what force these should be given .
9 What was crucial , though , was that this development did not mean that a special category of movies was made for a sectional audience but rather that what was thought of as the ‘ quality ’ taste was allowed to shape the general output of movies .
10 The change did not mean that the new recruits to Parliament were any less committed to socialism : indeed , many of them probably understood its teachings even better than had the bulk of MPs of the pre-war era .
11 That does not mean that the Labour Party are run or ruled by the trade unions .
12 It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole .
13 ALTHOUGH from March to the end of May , the main German effort took place on the Left Bank of the Meuse , this did not mean that the Right Bank had become a ‘ quiet sector ’ .
14 This does not mean that the economic functions of states have been diminished or are likely to fade away .
15 However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant .
16 But this does not mean that the carbon-zinc battery would be suitable for use in your detector .
17 This does not mean that the vast provinces of Russia should be ignored , although they usually are .
18 If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect .
19 This does not mean that the educated teacher will continually be in quest of innovation and reject conventional practices out of hand .
20 A reduction in the rate of interest ( r ) following an increase in money supply may well make bond holding less attractive , but this does not mean that the extra money will be mainly held in idle balances .
21 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 .
22 Nevertheless , the formation of the canon of writings did not mean that the living tradition of the teaching Church was downgraded .
23 This does not mean that the logical model need to be relational , but it is obviously convenient to use a relational DBMS when using the methodology described in the text .
24 However , just because a person is called , for example , ‘ manager ’ , it does not mean that the task-leader role automatically goes with the title .
25 Simply because there is no identifiable victim does not mean that the white-collar criminal is not unjustly enriched by the marketing of her crime story .
26 Thus a theory of articulation does not mean that the musical field is a pluralistic free-for-all .
27 These errors do not mean that the main qualities of the mind and the soul are not biologically inherited : they show simply that scientists are ordinary people .
28 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 .
29 But , the layman may object , this does not mean that the communicating classes should be allowed to get an election wrong , and just carry on communicating as if nothing had happened .
30 This does not mean that the competitive arena has become less global .
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