Example sentences of "[det] [is] not meant " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not meant to be ungenerous toward the two , who , on their day , can be a couple of the finest debaters in the Commons . |
| 2 | This is not meant to be harassment , just a gentle reminder . |
| 3 | This is not meant to suggest , of course , that the dismantling of the British empire can be comprehensively explained by the role of ‘ character ’ in the formation of imperial policy : a chapter on the end of empire in a book called Empire and the English Character must include a disclaimer to that effect . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | All this is not meant as a massive , unqualified slight against the Caribbean family , for there are understandable reasons for its failure , amongst them fractured relationships and the prime necessities of having to feed , clothe and shelter their children . |
| 6 | For example , although the Bonapartist state is a pertinent effect of the peasant class , this is not meant to imply that there is a unidirectional causal link between the peasantry and Bonapartism . |
| 7 | But this is not meant to belittle the magnitude of the adaptive radiations that took place in the Vendian and Cambrian periods . |
| 8 | This is not meant to imply that the details of the interaction are the same in both proteins . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is not meant to be the only way of constructing your opening paragraph . |
| 11 | This is not meant as a crisis hot-line ; it will enable us to conduct the significant amount of business we have to undertake . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ah yes but this is not meant to be old fashioned . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I take it that is not meant as a compliment . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Trouble that 's not meant to be caused ? ’ |
| 17 | That 's not meant to have knife and forks in . |
| 18 | You know , that 's not meant for parking ! |