Example sentences of "[pron] were meant to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this manner , representations painted in simple style which were meant to be graphically reproduced in a catalogue for a mass audience , shifted into the form of a more elaborately produced and unique art object intended for private tastes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I think , ’ Doyle murmured , ‘ that you have forgotten what you were meant to be doing . ’ |
| 4 | I thought you were meant to be watching your blood pressure . ’ |
| 5 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 6 | You do n't have to go on about , ‘ I love you , you love me , we were meant to be ’ . |
| 7 | I guess we were meant to be , however much we try to fight it . |
| 8 | I guess we were meant to be , however much we try to fight it . |
| 9 | I knew — it sounds corny — but I knew we were meant to be , that we were simpático . ’ |
| 10 | Talk about the increasing representation of women , there were meant to be more women in the shadow cabinet with the elections for the shadow cabinet produced a disaster for women did n't it ? |
| 11 | They were meant to be a pro group while we were just starting out . |
| 12 | They were meant to be for his weight but I 'm not sure I believe that . |
| 13 | There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently . |
| 14 | They were meant to be The Rolling Stones of their time . |
| 15 | Most of all , although they were meant to be secret , these were secrets that were fairly indifferently kept ; if , indeed , they were kept at all . |
| 16 | No-one was quite sure whether they were meant to be in fancy dress but anyhow there were a couple decent Santa 's , a smith grinding policeman , and a ridiculous looking Dave ‘ Kowabunga-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle-Most-Unfortunately-named-clothing-company-of-the-century ’ Davis , dressed in poncho and sombrero . |
| 17 | The National Sound Archive does n't claim to be the natural home for gramophones or other equipment , but it does have a small historical collection , because to understand the recordings , some knowledge of how they were meant to be played is desirable . |
| 18 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 19 | They can never realize the parental aspiration other than in a superficial way , and they are left not only with the envy of the sex they were meant to be , but also unable to enjoy the sex which they are and the advantages which pertain to it . |
| 20 | They were meant to be devoid of personal feelings , deadpan , like lawyers who had to defend a case they did n't believe in , who went home at the end of the day leaving all their patients ' foibles filed away in their consulting rooms . |
| 21 | That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in . |
| 22 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 23 | Well , when Wyn had his stethoscope in his ears I wondered if they were meant to be him . |
| 24 | I knew that they were sincere and above all that they were meant to be helpful . |
| 25 | The smile froze on her face as his words , jocular though they were meant to be , slammed home with the force of a bullet . |
| 26 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 27 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 28 | You see , pound coins were not made to rest in drains , they were meant to circulate , they were meant to be used , they were meant as a means of currency and that 's what the bible means when it talks about being lost . |
| 29 | But with Mao 's law it was n't complete erm egalitarianism because landlords erm rich peasants were to receive less , they were meant to be penalized were n't they ? |
| 30 | Fernando loved her and she loved him and they were meant to be together . |