Example sentences of "[pron] is meant to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With such an inauspicious start to the congress which is meant to be a demonstration of unity , the organisers have had to take precautions . |
| 2 | In fact it something called the ‘ Gospel According to Shug ’ , which is meant to be taken seriously : ‘ HELPED are those who love the lesbian , the gay and the straight , as they love the sun , the moon and the stars . |
| 3 | Not so much a gentleman actually , more a devious swine , since this means I get the overhang which is meant to be the crux . |
| 4 | ‘ If you have a room which is meant to be a meeting place of all the chief Daleks , and what they 're talking about is power — power over other civilisations , power over other planets — then power and domination is what comes through in the dialogue , and is the feeling behind what you want to create . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Neither the Chancellor 's speech on the Queen 's Speech nor his autumn statement , which is meant to be central to Government thinking , contained one word on the environment . |
| 7 | Seemingly unrestrained by their director , his principals , Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons , indulge in a perfect orgy of , in actor-speak , ‘ playing the result ’ : their first meeting , before they are even introduced , is a wild farrago of fish-like glances , tortured swallowing and interminable silences , and Malle follows suit , equipping his female lead with a get-up — black leather , gloves , fags , sunglasses , four-inch heels and an Eton crop to make a Brazilian transvestite blink , never mind a research assistant at Sotheby 's , which is what she is meant to be . |
| 8 | Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Most taxation is driven by the ‘ ability to pay ’ principle ( which in itself is meant to be equitable rather than redistributive ) , and much policy , as suggested above , may be explicitly redistributional . |
| 13 | How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters . |
| 14 | Although community care year one is meant to be ‘ steady state ’ , there are bound to be plenty of bumps along the way before it gives way to the managerially more predictable , through financially harsher , 1994–5 . |
| 15 | No universal rule can be stated , because examiners differ in their practice , but nearly always there is meant to be a connection , at least if the two parts of the question are not subdivided by numbers or letters . |
| 16 | There is still no clarity about what sort of programme it is meant to be : but , to begin with , this is no bad thing . |
| 17 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is meant to be put to a specific use . |
| 21 | Though it is meant to be used to keep out the cold , we had brought six of them to cover the tents and reflect away the sun 's heat , and to signal for help if needed . |
| 22 | This is probably the case since children do things the way that feels natural to them without worrying unduly how it is meant to be done . |
| 23 | We suppose that when somebody says something to us , it is meant to be informative , has some warrant in fact and is not a deliberate obfuscation or falsehood ( for further detail and discussion see Grice 1975 ; Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 24 | Heterosexism ensures that the gut reaction of every heterosexual woman and young woman , as well as many lesbian workers and young lesbians , is to deny the ‘ accusation ’ — for that is certainly what it is meant to be . |
| 25 | It is meant to be a 12 day walk but because of its convoluted shape the circuit can easily be shortened , for instance two of the days are more or less optional . |
| 26 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |
| 27 | But the signs are that street-wise teenagers who caused the Chipie boom are moving on again , leaving the brand to settle back to what it is meant to be , a broad-based fashionable collection with an appeal to all members of the family who like off-beat colours and tradition given a twist . |
| 28 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 29 | Am I right in supposing that one essential quality of poetry is that it is meant to be read aloud ? |
| 30 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |