Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] mean [prep] 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 | ‘ This is what 's meant to be forming our character , remember ? |
| 8 | So you might be cleaning a portrait of what 's meant to be an Italian noblewoman , and gradually uncover a suckling baby . |
| 9 | If you do n't know what 's true , or what 's meant to be true , then the value of what is n't true , or is n't meant to be true , becomes diminished . |
| 10 | But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning . |
| 11 | I raise my glass to Victor , and give what 's meant to be a shamefaced grin but probably looks like a careless . |
| 12 | And how do you hit the base of a thumb without dislocating what 's meant to be grasping a ski-pole for the next week ? |
| 13 | Coal flecked bacon and sausage will be a sharp reminder of reality in what 's meant to be a complete surrender to fantasy . |
| 14 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |