Example sentences of "[verb] it be meant " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't know it was meant to be fancy dress though . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , erm , if you did n't know it was meant to be serious , you might think it was a great send off of psychoanalysis , you know . |
| 3 | He says it 's meant the loss of half a million pounds income for Oxfam and they 're continuing to lose £10,000 a week . |
| 4 | He says it 's meant his elderly mother has had to live in a house that 's dangerous , barely habitable and will cost eighty thousand pounds to repair . |
| 5 | Like it was meant to look an accident . |
| 6 | That he wears a soldier 's plume without meriting it is meant to show that he is a bluff . |
| 7 | ‘ Suppose it was meant to turn all eyes towards our hostess ? ’ |
| 8 | But the very nature of advice can only be understood if we understand in what spirit it is meant to be offered and for what reasons it is meant to be taken . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought it was meant to be improper , ’ I said . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it was meant to be a secret , ’ said Camille . |
| 11 | I thought it was meant to be anonymous . |
| 12 | I , I do think it 's meant to be there to actually . |
| 13 | I do n't think it is meant to happen . |
| 14 | I do nt think it was meant as anti-Leeds , but more pro Blackburn . |
| 15 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 16 | And then I realised it was meant to be me . |
| 17 | This way of putting it is meant to attribute causal properties to things ( or to the structure of things ) , falling short of a grand determinist scheme but still thinking in terms of real productive powers . |
| 18 | I think it 's meant to be twisted |
| 19 | There is still no clarity about what sort of programme it is meant to be : but , to begin with , this is no bad thing . |