Example sentences of "[be] mean to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably Ash 's biting oneliners such as ‘ give me some honey , baby ’ as he kisses heroine Embeth Davidtz , are meant to be side-splittingly funny . |
| 2 | Cos the middles are meant to be so brilliant . |
| 3 | Straightforward leave applications are often decided without an oral hearing ; but even when there is a hearing in order to clarify issues , leave proceedings are meant to be very brief : a recent practice statement requires special notice to be given if it is anticipated that the leave application will last for more than 30 minutes . |
| 4 | The Daleks themselves , when you saw them , were meant to be entirely different from human beings , with a city that was built without any regard for human concepts of scale , size and functioning . |
| 5 | Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are . |
| 6 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 7 | He 's meant to be quite sad that he dies |
| 8 | But apparently , it 's meant to be really good there . |
| 9 | He 's meant to be really good . |
| 10 | It 's meant to be really funny , |
| 11 | And he 's meant to be really hip shit , shit hot good . |
| 12 | The question is whether , in a society that 's meant to be as free for women as for men , we should have to . |
| 13 | Given that the evening was meant to be so special , so significant , they could hardly have got off to a worse start , but Jessica refused to compromise . |
| 14 | For them , relief was to be provided only in the workhouse , where families were separated and the workhouse diet was meant to be less palatable than that of the poorest working labourer in the district . |
| 15 | His question was meant to be extremely scathing . |
| 16 | The main theme of the film seems to be that since Christ was meant to be truly human , it is not unreasonable to portray him as subject to the same faults that bedevil all our lives . |