Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] mean the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pentecost did not only mean the offering of the firstfruits to God ( and what remarkable firstfruits of the Spirit were offered to the Lord that day as three thousand people believed , were baptised , and joined the company of the disciples praising God in the temple ) : first-century Jews would also have recalled the giving of the law on Mount Sinai ( see Jubilees 1:1 , 6:17 ) . |
| 2 | At first , this stress on ‘ natural religion ’ , as it was called , did not necessarily mean the abandonment of Christianity as revealed in the Scriptures ; so long as it was not inconsistent with reason , it could be accepted . |
| 3 | When Americans talk about an ‘ underclass ’ in their cities , they do not simply mean the poor ; they mean poor but healthy young people who can not or will not , but anyway do not , get a job . |
| 4 | By that , I do not simply mean the gods , but human culture itself as well . |
| 5 | Spenser , however , does not literally mean the sword . |
| 6 | Dimension does not merely mean the space to be filled . |
| 7 | When Lacan speaks of the Other , he does not only mean the world of concrete others , but indicates an outside symbolic field of language which we are inserted into . |
| 8 | Negative reinforcement does not necessarily mean the threat of physical punishment . |
| 9 | Since the arrival of civilisation , providing for a family does not necessarily mean the direct production of food , clothing and shelter , but of making an adequate effort to provide these things by using the organisation of the society lived in . |
| 10 | Ask Computer Systems Inc warns that it will only break even , and may make a loss for its fiscal third quarter , adding that the poor profit forecast results from its failure to close about $10m in sales in the period but that does not necessarily mean the company permanently lost those sales ; the company said a significant amount of software licence sales it had expected for the quarter did not close in time . |
| 11 | It should therefore be noted that four deckle edges does not necessarily mean the paper is handmade . |
| 12 | For this reason , the low value of the correlation coefficient does not necessarily mean the lack of relationship between variables ; it may be due to the non-linear nature of the relationship . |
| 13 | It has been said that in s.9(1) ( b ) , which does not mention the term " offence " , grievous bodily harm does not necessarily mean the offences found in ss.18 and 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 : Jenkins [ 1983 ] 1 All ER 993 . |
| 14 | Hence , this August does not necessarily mean the month that we are now in , in the way that this week ordinarily means the week that we are now in . |