Example sentences of "is not meant to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A description of a Tantric painting as a linear diagram may seem uninteresting , but then the effect of such a picture is not meant to be pleasure for the eye alone , but for religious use . |
| 2 | Lacan 's work is not subject to empirical verification , and indeed is not meant to be . |
| 3 | ( Sometimes the discussion of rebirth sounds like Shirley Maclean 's writings on ‘ channelling ’ , though one suspects it is not meant to . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not meant to be a book with the message of ‘ here 's how to cope . ’ |
| 7 | This is not meant to be harassment , just a gentle reminder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | ‘ But life is not meant to be easy . ’ |
| 12 | The quality of our lives is not meant to be static . |
| 13 | If that sounds like a counsel of perfection , it is not meant to be , for Paul is showing the practicalities of love when put into action . |
| 14 | The checklist which follows is not meant to be all-embracing . |
| 15 | It is not meant to be the Curriculum Vitae of everyone involved in writing the thing ! |
| 16 | And anyway , langlauf is not meant to be racy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is not meant to be the only way of constructing your opening paragraph . |
| 19 | A genuine higher education is unsettling ; it is not meant to be a cosy experience . |
| 20 | iv Comedian or mascot : This child , often the youngest of the family , is treated as a pet and is not meant to be bothered by " serious " matters . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ah yes but this is not meant to be old fashioned . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Except for the fact that she is n't meant to be Jewish , we are in stock Jewish-mother territory . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you do n't know what 's true , or what 's meant to be true , then the value of what is n't true , or is n't meant to be true , becomes diminished . |
| 28 | You see , this report is n't meant to be read , it 's meant to be put into the computer . ’ |
| 29 | Based on the idea of a cliche , an often repeated phrase is n't it oh it cost me an arm and a leg , erm which is n't meant to be taken literally . |
| 30 | And this , I mean , this is n't meant to be a good band anyway , is it ? |