Example sentences of "this [be] mean [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
2 | Henson has done a lovely job of placing his famous characters in the novel 's context while never letting us forget that this is meant to be a huge extravaganza . |
3 | And this is meant to be hush-hush . |
4 | Under the 1977 Health Service Act this is meant to be a ‘ full cost ’ fee which the Secretary of State fixes . |
5 | This is meant to be the sexy bit , but do n't get excited , chums . |
6 | I 'm not in the mood for co-stars : this is meant to be a solo . |
7 | This is meant to be something special . ’ |
8 | There 's no toilets , nothing for them , I mean they 're doing everything in public , I mean it 's not right , it 's making life bad and this is meant to be a holiday resort . |
9 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
10 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
11 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
12 | Biff Vokins looked up from his desk — this was meant to be a private study period — and gave an enquiring glance . |
13 | It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth . |
14 | ‘ I thought this was meant to be a friendly chat not a bloody interrogation . ’ |
15 | An essential requirement surely , if this was meant to be in any way a useful gift , would be an adequate number of notes . |
16 | This was meant to be the happy day when a group of volunteers from Berkeley , brought 40 children from the war in Bosnia , to the safety of Gloucestershire . |
17 | But this was meant to be a family day … and they came in their thousands … the Shetland Pony Grand National was as big an attraction as the thoroughbred races . |