Example sentences of "not mean [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |
2 | This data does not mean that absolute wages are higher , because in the early years wages in Japan are relatively low . |
3 | An awareness of this structure does not mean that strategic intervention is either useless or impossible ; but it does mean that analysis of how resistance actually operates , in what conditions it succeeds or fails , needs an altogether more complex model . |
4 | This does not mean that such support is not available or forthcoming for genuine development . |
5 | The fact that firms find it in their mutual interests to combine , or to develop lasting links , does not mean that such links are socially desirable in the wider sense ( as Williamson , for example , would agree ) . |
6 | So article 7(5) of the Leasing Convention , which provides that nothing in article 7 is to affect the priority of any lien creditor , does not mean that lien creditors are to have priority over the lessor , merely that article 7 itself is not to be treated as dealing with the issue , so that resort must be had to the applicable law . |
7 | This does not mean that individual men do not count . |
8 | The concept of equality of outcomes does not mean that each person obtains the same number of marks in the same number of examinations , but that a representative individual of any group has the same probability of success as a representative individual of any other group . |
9 | It should be noted that , while the budgets and weight of food items were calculated per prisoner , this did not mean that each inmate was given an individually weighed portion : the uncooked food was simply weighed in bulk on leaving the stores for the kitchen . |
10 | ‘ but the mere appearance on the statute book of a measure providing for penalties and forfeitures does not mean that all moneys collected pursuant to the statute are extorted by the Crown . |
11 | This does not mean that all Conservatives , or indeed all young members of the Conservative Party , are similarly uninvolved in constructing ideological cameras . |
12 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |
13 | Recognize that although addictive disease , like short-sight , is probably genetically inherited and certainly runs in families , this does not mean that all parents or all -children of sufferers from addictive disease will necessarily have addictive disease themselves . |
14 | Just because there is a real opportunity area does not mean that all entries into the area are likely to be successful . |
15 | Unacceptable standards of behaviour and attainment at Tyndale did not mean that all schools following an enquiry or discovery approach to learning were similarly failing . |
16 | This highlights an important implication of establishing the SEM although there might be net gains to be reaped this does not mean that all participants in the process experience benefits . |
17 | This does not mean that all aspects of day-to-day management must be in the hands of solicitors , or solicitors and RFLs , provided the effective management is so exercised . |
18 | The imbalance between the parties does not mean that all disputes ought to be resolved in court , rather it suggests that there may be methods of organising dispute resolution which are fairer for the parties involved . |
19 | This does not mean that all pensioners live in poverty , but the effect of age discrimination is to depress the whole of this group 's income and it is only those with access to higher incomes through , for example , substantial occupational pensions , who are able to cushion themselves against the economic consequences . |
20 | Similarly , there can be damaging consequences from repeated drug use , smoking , caffeine ingestion , gambling , excessive exercise , overwork , slimming , overeating , forced vomiting and from making inappropriate relationships but this does not mean that all people who suffer damaging consequences are necessarily addicted to any of these processes . |
21 | They could and often did , but that does not mean that practical considerations could be ignored : as a line in one of John Clare 's poems has it : " Love without money brings winter for life " . |
22 | Marriages might of necessity be in the first place a business agreement — an exchange of goods and services — but this did not mean that deep feelings did not enter it . |
23 | These differences do not mean that economic historians are cast adrift in a sea of events : they possess the potentially powerful faculty of hindsight , though it can easily be a powerfully deluding one . |
24 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
25 | This does not mean that psychotropic drugs have no role in the treatment of patients who might attempt suicide . |
26 | Ivica Racan , a ( Croatian ) member of the party presidium , said that this meant affirming the freedom of a citizen 's political association , keeping self-management strategic to socialist development , but did not mean that political pluralism " should be reduced simply to the question of a multiparty system , because this is only one of the possible forms of political pluralism " . |
27 | However , this did not mean that negative covenants are always irremediable covenants . |
28 | Therefore , simply to remove NTBs does not mean that increased trade and the rationalisation of production processes will necessarily follow . |
29 | This does not mean that better forms of work organisation should not be introduced simply because they are more expensive . |
30 | This does not mean that legal rights are entirely ignored , but it does mean the scope for making decisions primarily based on illness is increased . |