Example sentences of "be [adv] meant to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans , but we are not meant to be reading it . |
| 2 | Trade unions , it they are involved at all , are not meant to be militant . |
| 3 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 4 | The early efforts are not meant to be marked on promise alone ; yet it is hard not to do that . |
| 5 | The illustrations are not meant to be accurate — for use as maps — but they succeed brilliantly as indicators of the terrain likely to be found on these walks . |
| 6 | These definitions are not meant to be academically accurate , but to describe the meanings generally intended . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , such fictions are not meant to be taken literally , for it can be dangerous to indulge the Gothic imagination in ordinary life , as Catherine learns to her cost at Northanger Abbey . |
| 8 | They are not meant to be listened to . |
| 9 | These are not meant to be comprehensive surveys of the literature , but are simply designed to illustrate the application of rational expectations to specific areas . |
| 10 | General SVQs are not meant to be narrowly vocational — although I think the name may not be entirely helpful here . |
| 11 | Religions as sociological entities are not meant to be more than stepping-stones to an appreciation of the profound Mystery at the heart of reality . |
| 12 | The banana 's are not meant to be |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're both meant to be seekers after truth . |
| 17 | Yet in both passages the complaints are clearly meant to be regarded as reprehensible . |
| 18 | No-one should argue with the concept of greater efficiency in the BBC , but the reforms are also meant to be about decentralising power to where the creativity resides . |
| 19 | Maybe the ghost is where I am really meant to be . |
| 20 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They wanted everything we had on the stand — and they were only meant to be samples . |
| 22 | They were only meant to be temporary , but humankind has barriers just like them in their own heads — permanent ones in most cases . |
| 23 | They were only meant to be temporary , to last ten years , so it 's a bit of a laugh . |
| 24 | We girls were only the workhorses really — we read the instruments , plotted the charts , made the tea and kept the office clean , and were not meant to be able to give a weather forecast . |
| 25 | Such laboratories were not meant to be public places , and the requirements of furnaces and sand-baths and enormous wet-batteries all pointed to the basement as the best place , although without good artificial light the hours of usefulness of basement laboratories was limited . |
| 26 | Under the ASC , Statements of Standard Accounting Practice were not meant to be rigid specifications of acceptable practice but rather ‘ to narrow the areas of difference ’ between accounting practices . |
| 27 | Some things were not meant to be revived . |
| 28 | These sick visits were genuinely meant to be helpful . |
| 29 | I 'm sure they were n't meant to be there , but the solo probably felt so good that they decided the Ds were n't horrific enough to worry about . |
| 30 | They could n't tell you off for not turning off the lights but you were n't meant to be out of your dorm or even out of bed . |