Example sentences of "meant to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was meant to be a dry run for a much bigger event in September . |
| 2 | A genuine higher education is unsettling ; it is not meant to be a cosy experience . |
| 3 | It closed a few years ago , they could n't knock it down because it was meant to be a prime example of nineteen thirties architecture . |
| 4 | ‘ It was meant to be a supportive stake , ’ its chairman Jim Davies says . |
| 5 | He had given a picture of religion , which represented it as primarily concerned with guilt , with taboos against incest , and as er , representing the origins of civilization in primeval societies like those of the Australian Aborigines , and Freud erm , remarks in the opening pages of Civilization and Discontents that Totem and Taboo was never meant to be a complete theory of religion . |
| 6 | Coal flecked bacon and sausage will be a sharp reminder of reality in what 's meant to be a complete surrender to fantasy . |
| 7 | It 's odd by current supercar standards because as BMW 's 300bhp V12 engine was never meant to be a stressed item — it is carried in a subframe sling — but otherwise it looks like it could be built tomorrow . |
| 8 | Well she 's meant to be a real bitch anyway . |
| 9 | The summer that was meant to be a grandiloquent celebration of Spanish glory and its new role in Europe and as a bridge to Latin America is turning sour . |
| 10 | I raise my glass to Victor , and give what 's meant to be a shamefaced grin but probably looks like a careless . |
| 11 | On a February day in 1306 Bruce arranged what was apparently meant to be a conciliatory meeting-at the Greyfriars ' monastery church in Dumfries . |
| 12 | ‘ When we started off it was meant to be a serious underground label and we thought we 'd just do a couple of thousand . |
| 13 | Biff Vokins looked up from his desk — this was meant to be a private study period — and gave an enquiring glance . |
| 14 | It was meant to be a jocular observation but even as I said it I knew that I had transgressed some important Gyggle taboo . |
| 15 | Also , with all the genuine turning to God by leaders and people — here , and perhaps even more in South Africa — this part of the world is surely meant to be a turning point in the ideological power struggle . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought this was meant to be a friendly chat not a bloody interrogation . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nigel Steen led Charles , with what was meant to be a lordly gesture , into the study next door . |
| 20 | And this , I mean , this is n't meant to be a good band anyway , is it ? |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | It is beyond doubt that the service was meant to be a social institution with aims in addition to those of an economic nature . |
| 23 | The quotation here is based on the edition of Pearl by E. V. Gordon ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1953 ) , originally meant to be a co-operative venture with Tolkien ; and I would translate it as follows : |
| 24 | They were meant to be a pro group while we were just starting out . |
| 25 | He flashed Charles what was meant to be a frank smile . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Probably because for a while he was meant to be a wild child around the Hollywood hills . |
| 28 | I was one of the bowlers asked to provide the cannon fodder to the big international batting stars on what was meant to be a fun day out . |
| 29 | Was it meant to be a chuckling advertisement for his own sensibility ; a tease about the gritty , unpolishable surface of the desert ; or might it just have been a joke on us ? |