Example sentences of "[pron] does not [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just because I knew Mills was suspected of betraying someone does not necessarily mean that I had anything to do with his unfortunate death . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 3 | These simpler meanings ( which does not necessarily mean ‘ simple ’ ) are carried by identifiable parts of the sentence ; and the way they must be combined to yield the global meaning of the sentence is indicated by the syntactic structure of the sentence . |
| 4 | ‘ She does n't really mean it , ’ Robert defended Dawn reluctantly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Having gone through all the arguments such as ‘ he does n't really mean it ’ , and ‘ he loves me really ’ , she finally leaves with the support of the police , particularly the WPC . |
| 7 | He does n't really mean that elephants do n't need an explanation ; rather that he is satisfied that biologists can explain elephants , provided they are allowed to take certain facts of physics for granted . |
| 8 | It may be that what he 's said in court is purely something to get back at you and he does n't really mean it . |
| 9 | Even if individuals do live in a nuclear family group it does not necessarily mean that their closest emotional ties are to be found there . |
| 10 | ‘ It does not necessarily mean that people should not be told the truth in school about what happens in reality . ’ |
| 11 | Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it . |
| 12 | It is thought that it does not necessarily mean granted or refused . |
| 13 | Although power is widely spread it does not necessarily mean that it is evenly spread between all groups . |
| 14 | But just because the ranger service has expanded it does not necessarily mean there will be similar increase in the number of school visits or guided walks . |
| 15 | An advantage of this approach is that it does not necessarily mean that there should be any general factors which directly impair or enhance memory . |
| 16 | Erm , but in fact , the way that I use it er , would not be the way that Andy uses it , the way that Andy uses it would not be the way that Martin uses it , it does not necessarily mean that any of us are wrong . |
| 17 | It is a big job , it does n't just mean changing the colour of your stock , er , and it 's difficult to think of erm , er , Alan wearing the purple so to say , but erm , I 'm sure he , I went to his consecration in York about two months ago , it was a very moving and er , enjoyable occasion and he 's erm , er , now entered upon that inheritance . |
| 18 | It does n't just mean that he loved a mass of humani , he does that , but he does n't love the mass as a mass , he loves the mass as individuals , one by one , God loves you ! |
| 19 | Just because we 're a rave band it does n't automatically mean we take Ecstasy . |
| 20 | If terminal five does n't get the go ahead , if it does n't automatically mean that we 're faced with expansion at Stansted erm this is one of the reasons |
| 21 | Sometimes string makers print the tension of their strings on the packets , but it does n't actually mean that much . |
| 22 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 23 | It does n't actually mean necessarily erm how you behave . |
| 24 | Wonderful but it does n't actually mean anything . |
| 25 | It does n't incidentally mean that one is good and the other is bad . |
| 26 | It is standard procedure , and it does n't usually mean you actually get evicted ; it is a way of frightening people . |
| 27 | WHEN actors say they are ‘ resting ’ it does n't necessarily mean that they are lying on the sofa all day waiting for the phone to ring . |
| 28 | It does n't necessarily mean being totally idealistic — there are some situations where you can take control — ’ |
| 29 | Feeding most species of marine fish is not therefore as simple as it may seem and even if a fish feeds eagerly , it does n't necessarily mean that it 's eating the right food . |
| 30 | It does n't necessarily mean it 's going to work at front of house , so the sound man takes a direct feed , just a regular Marshall , dry , up to the house . |