Example sentences of "[adj] do [not/n't] mean [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 2 | This did not mean he did not know . |
| 3 | This does not mean we have to put ourselves down all the time : this would just be false humility , which is another subtle form of pride . |
| 4 | But this does not mean they caused them to appear . |
| 5 | But this does not mean they do not win ; as I can testify , they do . |
| 6 | ’ This does not mean they have to argue that their belief will never be given up . |
| 7 | Well , to clarify , I have a season ticket for Ibrox and I also ‘ support ’ leeds united , but since I see Rangers play every week , I would probably class them as my number one team — this does not mean I do nt like Leeds — its all a matter of prioritising the teams . |
| 8 | But — hoo-ha ! — this does not mean I have to stay in one particular mirror . |
| 9 | This does n't mean they have changed their personality , it merely demonstrates that even extraverts are capable of modifying their behaviour . |
| 10 | This does n't mean I have to define truth , merely produce two important truisms about it , each of which has in fact been proposed as a definition . |
| 11 | This does n't mean you have to be pasty-white all summer . |
| 12 | ‘ Just because you 're married does n't mean you 've got to be Siamese twins , ’ I said loftily . |
| 13 | But just because your boss is Turkish does n't mean he treats you any better . |
| 14 | However , the five who rejected the appeal over the beating of a seven-year-old boy in an English boarding school stressed that that did not mean they condoned corporal punishment in principle . |
| 15 | Underneath it all , Markby suspected , Simon was badly frightened at the result of his action — but that did not mean he had not intended to do it . |
| 16 | Certainly we had been given dominion over them , but that did n't mean we had to go cramming their little corpses down our necks like there 's no tomorrow when soya beans and wheat mountains rise up from Mother Earth like a sign saying : Meat is Murter . |
| 17 | And although many of them might be poor in some ways , that did n't mean they had no money to spend . |
| 18 | Brian Close showed no fear , but that did n't mean he did n't feel any . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , yes , but that did n't mean you had to jump to all sorts of other conclusions . ’ |
| 20 | If you were a Parquet lawyer you got used to cases getting nowhere ; but that did n't mean you liked it . |
| 21 | But that did n't mean she had to like it . |
| 22 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 23 | It was another trait of her birth sign , but that did n't mean she used words emptily . |
| 24 | He had n't done a bad job of dictating her actions so far but that did n't mean it had to continue . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember , but that did n't mean I expected you to freeze to death . ’ |
| 26 | Why , nothing is the answer to that one , ladies and gentlemen , although that does n't mean we 've got nothing to give away this week , no sir . |
| 27 | Why , nothing is the answer to that one , ladies and gentlemen , although that does n't mean we 've got nothing to give away this week , no sir . |
| 28 | But that does n't mean we have no homophobia here — just that it is rather more amorphous , more difficult to pinpoint . |
| 29 | That does n't mean we have to tell children every little embarrassing detail about ourselves . |
| 30 | We 're a little one-paced at the moment , so I want to raise the pace of the training sessions , although that does n't mean we have to bring in new blood quite yet ’ . |