Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] not meant [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 2 | The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans , but we are not meant to be reading it . |
| 3 | They are not meant to be listened to . |
| 4 | Er and these , these little exercises er are meant to give you erm they 're memory aids really , they 're not meant to be homework , they 're simply so as er you know like if you , you want to remember er a difficult name you can sometimes do a funny thing with it you know to , to remember it you know . |
| 5 | They 're not meant to be crude or sensationalist , they give you an idea of the kind of thing that your fire fighters face on a regular basis . |