Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not however mean that one can clearly distinguish a concept of ‘ rule of law ’ in the legal system from ‘ rule of law ’ as part of the ideological system . |
| 2 | It is made clear that this does not simply mean that each school must offer such a curriculum ; each individual pupil must take it up . |
| 3 | This does not automatically mean that the research is biased . |
| 4 | This does not automatically mean that the provision will be made , but it does make it possible to plan in the light of solid knowledge rather than guesswork . |
| 5 | And yet this does not automatically mean they will be quids in . |
| 6 | If a product carries the word " patent " or " patented " or similar , this does not automatically mean that the defendant knows of the patent unless the number of the patent also appears on the product concerned . |
| 7 | This does not just mean interviews with a therapist , but also appropriate contact with nursing and other ward staff . |
| 8 | This does not just mean ‘ frequent ’ : exceptions are perceived as ‘ odd ’ , but are not necessarily disapproved of , sanctioned , etc . |
| 9 | This does not just mean clever things like the expert system in the White House conference room , but simple things such as the British postcodes for the early 1980s and the digitized boundaries of old GIS systems . |
| 10 | This does not always mean that damaged property requires to be inspected or that Loss Adjusters must be appointed in every case . |
| 11 | Bearing in mind that even if an employer 's action amounts to constructive dismissal , this does not always mean that the dismissal will automatically be unfair . |
| 12 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 13 | On the one hand — and this is a point to which I shall return — there is a dual claim against Lukács ' evolutionism ( to the effect that different levels of a social formation are relatively autonomous : crudely , if bourgeois society is decadent this does not necessarily mean , as Lukács thought it did , that its art is too ) , and in favour of the possibility of being able to pass a positive ‘ aesthetic judgement ’ upon a particular work however questionable the general category under which it has been produced ( a position related to Brecht 's polemic against Lukács ) . |
| 14 | However , this does not necessarily mean that you need to do lots of different kinds of exercise . |
| 15 | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded . |
| 16 | This does not necessarily mean , however , that all Russia 's technical achievements are the product of espionage , although Western intelligence would have us believe this . |
| 17 | This does not necessarily mean that girls will necessarily choose subjects traditionally associated with boys and vice versa . |
| 18 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 19 | Even if numbers are there in profusion and quoted to several places of decimals this does not necessarily mean that they are reliable or useful . |
| 20 | This does not necessarily mean sick animals — many are perfectly healthy , just unwanted . |
| 21 | This does not necessarily mean that working-class boys commit more delinquencies , but that they are more likely to fall foul of the legal system . |
| 22 | This does not necessarily mean an expansion of output or rise in output per head will take place , since a large proportion of the existing available workforce is either unemployed or underemployed in many LDCs . |
| 23 | These parents may have been disturbed or overwrought , but this does not necessarily mean that they were mistaken about their child 's illness . |
| 24 | This does not necessarily mean that their parents have failed or brought them up badly . |
| 25 | This does not necessarily mean paying out a lot of money for several totally new changes of clothes . |
| 26 | Most UK manufacturers do not list the ingredients of their products , but this does not necessarily mean they pose a risk with sensible use . |
| 27 | This does not necessarily mean spending a great deal of money on it , but careful and considerate planning of the whole day . |
| 28 | This does not necessarily mean that the cholesterol is the cause , or certainly not the sole cause , of heart attacks . |
| 29 | This does not necessarily mean you have to go to the extent of bringing in high-power floodlights together with their attendant supply-cables . |
| 30 | However , this does not necessarily mean that ESP was involved . |