Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] do [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change did not mean that the new recruits to Parliament were any less committed to socialism : indeed , many of them probably understood its teachings even better than had the bulk of MPs of the pre-war era . |
| 2 | A has its meaning within the couplet only in the light , or sense , of B , and B in the light , or sense , of A. In the case of Isa 40.3 , for instance , the couplet does not mean B , even if B is more precise than A. It means ( i ) prepare Yahweh 's way in the sense of making straight a highway , and it means ( ii ) make straight the highway as an act of preparing a way for Yahweh , and it means both of these things concurrently . |
| 3 | Union with God for the Christian does not mean recognising oneself as part of God ( ‘ self-realisation ’ ) but means becoming a member of God 's family by adoption . |
| 4 | However , aggression in the horse does not mean that he will be aggressive or hostile towards us . |
| 5 | The plan does n't mean the end of touring productions at Billingham . |
| 6 | But he said the machine did not mean a return to the days of the mid-1980s when his company made huge profits from new computer equipment . |
| 7 | However , acknowledging the right did not mean that the party favoured people using it . |
| 8 | It had been faced and dealt with in the early centuries of the church and later along the lines that the inspiration of the Bible did not mean that God simply dictated the words , or that the authors ceased to be human and fallible . |
| 9 | Oh I 'm certain the sentry did n't mean to prick your niece in the — quite so — with his sword … |
| 10 | The absence of an elaborate and systematic theory of the atonement does not mean that the redemption story was not told . |
| 11 | This point was made even clearer in a later case involving the Chief Justice , in which he stated that a ‘ breach of the Act or the Code did not mean that any statement made by a defendant after such breach would necessarily by ruled out . |
| 12 | The world is changing , and just because defence , nuclear energy and agricultural research have been done in certain ways in the past does not mean that that is the best way now . |
| 13 | Respect for the past does not mean a reliance on fiddle and washboard . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough-based personnel manager Dale Haddon said the mix-up did n't mean the end of Bridget 's chances of landing a Post Office job . |
| 15 | Naturally the poem does not mean the same thing for him as for Bilbo . |
| 16 | and it 's it 's rubbish then , it 's rubbish because the scale does n't mean anything . |
| 17 | Of course , all the research in the world does n't mean there wo n't be a few surprises . |
| 18 | Just because a client is the customer does n't mean he is always right . |
| 19 | That he went grossly wrong in applying the standard does not mean that the standard as such was inapplicable . |
| 20 | Just because they 're the youngest year in the school does n't mean they 're gon na go round and , you know erm and copy what oth no that 's , no I 'm sorry Charlotte |
| 21 | Because some reforms are hidden from public view over the horizon does not mean that they have not been thought out and designed . |
| 22 | Having young vegetarians in the family does n't mean that their nutritional needs will be lacking , says Roselyne Masselin |
| 23 | He said his past role in the party did not mean that he had supported communist ideology . |
| 24 | However , Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia told the Supreme Soviet that the declaration did not mean immediate secession from the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | The vice-president of the self-declared Bosnian Serb Republic , Nikola Koljevic , said the Serbs had agreed to allow an airlift to evacuate the seriously wounded from Srebrenica but the agreement did not mean a permanent air link could be established with the Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia . |
| 26 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 27 | It is important to remember that the absence of impurity bands in a spectrum does not mean that the sample studied was pure . |
| 28 | First , that a system is headed by a president does not mean that the system is presidential ! |
| 29 | Certain kinds of events legally definable as ‘ pollution ’ are not followed by any action on the part of the field officer , supporting Becker 's dictum that ‘ an infraction of a rule does not mean that others will respond as though this had happened ’ ( 1963:12 ) . |
| 30 | But just because I 'm a lesbian did n't mean to say that I 'm going to pounce on every woman that I meet . |