Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [adv] mean " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 It does not necessarily mean that people should not be told the truth in school about what happens in reality . ’
3 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 .
4 It is thought that it does not necessarily mean granted or refused .
5 Although power is widely spread it does not necessarily mean that it is evenly spread between all groups .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 !
11 Just because we 're a rave band it does n't automatically mean we take Ecstasy .
12 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
13 Sometimes string makers print the tension of their strings on the packets , but it does n't actually mean that much .
14 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 ’ …
15 It does n't actually mean necessarily erm how you behave .
16 Wonderful but it does n't actually mean anything .
17 It does n't incidentally mean that one is good and the other is bad .
18 It is standard procedure , and it does n't usually mean you actually get evicted ; it is a way of frightening people .
19 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 .
20 It does n't necessarily mean being totally idealistic — there are some situations where you can take control — ’
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’
24 We can incrementally manage our way towards open systems component by component , ’ is his message to users , ‘ but do n't do it all at once — and remember it does n't necessarily mean Unix . ’
25 You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside .
26 ‘ And it does n't necessarily mean taking loads of drugs either .
27 It does n't necessarily mean that you will be . "
28 Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives .
29 ‘ And it does n't necessarily mean taking loads of drugs either .
30 Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things .
  Next page