Example sentences of "are meant [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winter puddings are meant to be lavish . |
| 2 | Roxanne Shante 's put-downs of men are meant to be feminist ; and suddenly we 're meant to respect Salt'n'Pepa 's greed , opportunism and exploitation of their own bodies . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps elephants are meant to be fat , ’ says her son Luke plaintively . |
| 4 | These are meant to be informal , but will be conducted in front of judges with legal teams on either side . |
| 5 | But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue . |
| 6 | From the beginning of 1991 , prices for everything except sugar are meant to be set at world market rates , whatever they may be . |
| 7 | They are gifts fit for a king , and so they are meant to be . |
| 8 | First the fire of God 's anger burns so fiercely among them , that parts of the camp are destroyed ( again we must not try to rationalize these events : they are meant to be seen as miraculous , and whatever we think of such miracle , we must accept the terms in which the story is written ) . |
| 9 | Words which are meant to be comforting and familiar may be frightening or threatening . |
| 10 | Different categories of services are no longer ‘ reserved ’ for categories of problems such as delinquency or the notorious ‘ Verwahrlosung ’ ( waywardness ) but are meant to be geared to the specific needs and circumstances of individual children . |
| 11 | Not all of these addresses are meant to be read by the person involved : Sophronia would have dismissed Leapor all the sooner if she had read ‘ The Disappointment ’ and ‘ The Consolation ’ . |
| 12 | If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic ’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women . |
| 13 | ‘ We are meant to be plucking the bloody snipe … ’ |
| 14 | This woman/man is not my life , but if we are meant to be together , we will be . |
| 15 | Notice boards are meant to be noticed , and therefore must look attractive . |
| 16 | Perhaps , after all , they are meant to be seen . |
| 17 | ‘ Curious ’ , after all , meant ‘ investigative ’ when the Earl of Hyndford used it of Thomas Goldney III , and that is what universities are meant to be about . |
| 18 | I 've never been very sure if the eight records are meant to be eight long-playing records or not . |
| 19 | System 3 are meant to be bringing a new game called Silly Putty out . |
| 20 | Churning is not good for buyers though : endowments are meant to be long-term investments , and it should have been made clear to you when you bought the policy that you would lose out if you cashed in before the end of the agreed term , which is typically , 25 years . |
| 21 | Cleansing lotions and creams are formulated with surfactants , a kind of detergent , and are meant to be taken off-not left on . |
| 22 | Intensive-care conditioners are often thick creams , and are meant to be used on damaged hair as and when you need it . |
| 23 | Spray-on hair glosses and hair dressings are meant to be used on dry hair in between shampoos and are particularly useful on coarse , curly hair that lacks moisture . |
| 24 | We are meant to be one of the caring nations in the world , for God 's sake . ’ |
| 25 | That feeling that you are not where you are meant to be . |
| 26 | But in a language like English , where gender distinctions are meant to be semantically-based , the Harvard faculty 's claim is startling enough to deserve further scrutiny . |
| 27 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 28 | Well , that last statement is not exactly true as I agree with the sentiments of those who have argued that the Exile clubs should not be in the Courage Leagues , which are meant to be for English players . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These tasks are meant to be stressful and to show how well the student can use the languages in difficult circumstances . |