Example sentences of "[conj] they [be] mean to be " in BNC.

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1	Most of all , although they were meant to be secret , these were secrets that were fairly indifferently kept ; if , indeed , they were kept at all .
2	I knew that they were sincere and above all that they were meant to be helpful .
3	He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance .
4	They are gifts fit for a king , and so they are meant to be .
5	There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently .
6	Fernando loved her and she loved him and they were meant to be together .
7	The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner .
8	Well , when Wyn had his stethoscope in his ears I wondered if they were meant to be him .
9	Many aquarium shops will sell these terrestrial plants but they are meant to be used as marginals outside the tank or in a paludarium .
10	Excluding the creditors and debtors may cause confusion amongst them as they will be uncertain as to whether they are meant to be dealing with the vendor or the purchaser for particular debts and liabilities .
11	No-one was quite sure whether they were meant to be in fancy dress but anyhow there were a couple decent Santa 's , a smith grinding policeman , and a ridiculous looking Dave ‘ Kowabunga-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle-Most-Unfortunately-named-clothing-company-of-the-century ’ Davis , dressed in poncho and sombrero .
12	The smile froze on her face as his words , jocular though they were meant to be , slammed home with the force of a bullet .

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