Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [not/n't] [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | er in regard to er th the quote there has been no agreement on the line , that refers to the fact that agreement has to be m erm come about with the actual erm East Sussex County Council and Surrey County Council and that er although a joint meeting of Planning and Highways what , some two years ago , took a view as to the line , that has n't actually meant that there is agreement at this stage where the line can be implemented and I would have thought that 's what that refers to . |
| 2 | This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such . |
| 3 | But this did n't necessarily mean , from my point of view , that we had to go around with Oliver . |
| 4 | Between 1958/9 and 1979/80 it rose sharply ( in England from 36.1 per cent to 48.5 per cent ) , but this did not automatically mean more central control , any more than the subsequent fall by 1984/5 to 39.2 per cent meant increased local freedom ( all figures from Travers , 1986 , table app. 7 ) . |
| 5 | This did not necessarily mean that all local party chiefs in the minorities were also lethargic during 1922 . |
| 6 | This did not necessarily mean that the churches opposed alleviation of pain , but it did mean that the ministrations of the pastor were much more important than those of the physician , and those of the latter should not be permitted to interfere with the spiritual task of the former . |
| 7 | The Prince began to be talked about though this did not necessarily mean that he was being taken seriously as a political alternative to the regime of Louis-Philippe . |
| 8 | This did not necessarily mean that they took a very exalted view of their own importance . |
| 9 | Examples would be the abandonment in the later eighteenth century of figured bass and of optional parts in favour of completely written-out orchestral scores ; and the writing out of vocal ornamentation by Rossini , followed by other nineteenth-century Italian opera composers , instead of leaving it to be improvised — though this did not necessarily mean that singers followed their instructions ! |
| 10 | Social services were more closely involved through their provision of home care services , although this did not necessarily mean that a social worker was appointed . |
| 11 | This did not necessarily mean that de Gaulle already took for granted that self-determination would lead to an independent Algerian state . |
| 12 | This did not necessarily mean a dramatic change in the substance of French policy : in its last phase the Fourth Republic had asserted French independence through a nuclear policy and a far from submissive attitude towards the US and Britain . |
| 13 | In particular it is important to appreciate that while the Americans frequently accused the British of old-fashioned colonialism , this did not necessarily mean that the spokesman or writer was wholly ignorant of the evolution of British imperial policies since Queen Victoria . |
| 14 | He conceded there was less reading of ‘ non-purposeful ’ material , such as comics , but added that this did not necessarily mean there was less literacy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This does not automatically mean that the research is biased . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And yet this does not automatically mean they will be quids in . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This does not just mean interviews with a therapist , but also appropriate contact with nursing and other ward staff . |
| 22 | This does not just mean ‘ frequent ’ : exceptions are perceived as ‘ odd ’ , but are not necessarily disapproved of , sanctioned , etc . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This does not always mean that damaged property requires to be inspected or that Loss Adjusters must be appointed in every case . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | However , this does not necessarily mean that you need to do lots of different kinds of exercise . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |