Example sentences of "is meant [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are . |
| 2 | And even Jenny , who is meant to be a mistress of plain speech , is allowed , in this comparatively austere book , a quiet felicity of phrase based on the justice of her perceptions . |
| 3 | Each is meant to be an improvement on the overwhelming developers architecture of the Sixties , of which Hammersmith is a shrine . |
| 4 | With such an inauspicious start to the congress which is meant to be a demonstration of unity , the organisers have had to take precautions . |
| 5 | There is still no clarity about what sort of programme it is meant to be : but , to begin with , this is no bad thing . |
| 6 | In fact it something called the ‘ Gospel According to Shug ’ , which is meant to be taken seriously : ‘ HELPED are those who love the lesbian , the gay and the straight , as they love the sun , the moon and the stars . |
| 7 | ‘ A young lecturer is meant to be able to get friends without paying for them . ’ |
| 8 | According to Bartlett and Ghoshal , the transnational company is meant to be the vehicle for international marketing of the 1990s that integrates the strengths of the three former culturally-dependent types of company . |
| 9 | Sikhism is a comparatively new religion and is meant to be a religion of reform which rejects both the caste system and the oppression of women . |
| 10 | As ARM will I hope be leavening the church , so the church is meant to be like salt and light in the world . |
| 11 | The once-off economic stabilisation fund for Poland is meant to be worth $1billion . |
| 12 | This book is meant to be a layman 's guide to the evolution of the smaller English house . |
| 13 | The fall of birds is meant to be seen as quite ridiculous and wholly supernatural in its proportions . |
| 14 | ‘ The glory has departed from Israel ’ is meant to be an explanation of the name Ichabod , which means either ‘ No Glory ’ , ‘ Where is the Glory ? ’ , or ‘ Alas for the Glory ! ’ . |
| 15 | Sex is pleasurable and is meant to be so . |
| 16 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 17 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 18 | None of these mixed spices is meant to be the full flavouring of a dish . |
| 19 | Europa threatens to do both throughout its 117-minute duration , but this Danish/Swedish/German/French co-production at least has a good excuse : the experience is meant to be unpleasant . |
| 20 | If I may make one suggestion to the South Africans that is meant to be helpful , it is this : call on Bob Burrows , the ITV producer who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup in this country , and invite him to be your consultant . |
| 21 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 22 | But the very nature of advice can only be understood if we understand in what spirit it is meant to be offered and for what reasons it is meant to be taken . |
| 23 | But the very nature of advice can only be understood if we understand in what spirit it is meant to be offered and for what reasons it is meant to be taken . |
| 24 | Music is meant to be about escapism , not dreary boring subjects like the miners ' strike and animal rights . |
| 25 | It is meant to be put to a specific use . |
| 26 | Though it is meant to be used to keep out the cold , we had brought six of them to cover the tents and reflect away the sun 's heat , and to signal for help if needed . |
| 27 | This is probably the case since children do things the way that feels natural to them without worrying unduly how it is meant to be done . |
| 28 | It really is no use following the tacking pattern of someone who is meant to be good in front of you , since the shifts affect different parts of the course at different times . |
| 29 | Instead , all of such income is meant to be saved and reinvested in the enterprise . |
| 30 | Nobody expects a paragon of virtue but the nurse is meant to be realistic , is meant to have self-knowledge because the ‘ self ’ must be used in the relationship . |