Example sentences of "not meant to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not meant to be a book with the message of ‘ here 's how to cope . ’ |
| 2 | The Last Supper was not meant to be a Take-Away . |
| 3 | But this book is not meant to be a history of Jewish conquest , only a true story , in brief , of one family , in the Gorbals of Glasgow between the two World Wars . |
| 4 | What follows in part two is not meant to be a gloomy cataloguing of specific doubts but a look at seven of the most common ‘ families ’ of doubt . |
| 5 | ( This is not meant to be a criticism , for I doubt whether we can work effectively without such things ; it is merely to point out that modernity enters the church far more easily than the church enters modernity . ) |
| 6 | But it was not meant to be a paean to Ecstasy . |
| 7 | ‘ And it 's not meant to be a joke . |
| 8 | This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of possible situations ; the intention is to show how to tackle any distribution that occurs in practice . |
| 9 | A genuine higher education is unsettling ; it is not meant to be a cosy experience . |
| 10 | So , er , what the description was there by the way , it 's not meant to be a description of the person . |
| 11 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 12 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 13 | It is not meant to be the Curriculum Vitae of everyone involved in writing the thing ! |
| 14 | He had not meant to be the first to speak , but something in the other 's silence compelled him . |
| 15 | This is not meant to be the only way of constructing your opening paragraph . |
| 16 | It is not meant to be an exclusive list , and nothing would please us more than to hear from readers about others — or their shortcomings , if the case deserved it . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | It 's not likely that they 'll fall entirely from grace , and this is n't meant to be a sob story of any sort . |
| 19 | This is n't meant to be a test , a mental MOT for your man , but they are all topics you can talk about , which will help you get to know each other better . |
| 20 | It was n't meant to be a cycling holiday and we did n't take any bikes with us , but Peter and Judy had a bike apiece for us to borrow . |
| 21 | And this , I mean , this is n't meant to be a good band anyway , is it ? |