Example sentences of "who be meant to " in BNC.

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1 But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue .
2 If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic ’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women .
3 Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members .
4 In the hospital kitchen there was a gulf between those who were meant to be in charge and those who actually carried out the work .
5 ‘ What , the one who 's meant to be finding out about your dad ? ’
6 I personally do n't find it offensive and being black I 'm the one who 's meant to .
7 Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are .
8 And even Jenny , who is meant to be a mistress of plain speech , is allowed , in this comparatively austere book , a quiet felicity of phrase based on the justice of her perceptions .
9 It really is no use following the tacking pattern of someone who is meant to be good in front of you , since the shifts affect different parts of the course at different times .
10 Laura Tyson , the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers , who is meant to be on the protectionist side of this debate , flatly denies this : those who believe it , she says , are living in a ‘ different reality ’ .
11 Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth .
12 Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house .
13 ‘ My grandad was a bronco buster when he was younger , ’ William used to tell them at school , and they 'd scoffed , even Preston , who was meant to be his Minder .
14 I think it would be much more effective if the one who was meant to be the hardhat and who might be expected to let the other one drown in fact saves the other one even though he thinks his ideas about the Indians and his plan to baptise them when they get to the Orinoco are blasphemous .
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