Example sentences of "were meant [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull were meant to be a more intelligent kind of music which appealed to sixth formers , like me . |
| 2 | They were meant to be a pro group while we were just starting out . |
| 3 | They were meant to be for his weight but I 'm not sure I believe that . |
| 4 | Phoebe could accept that , it was how grandmothers were meant to be , but when she turned to her friends , looking for guidance and inspiration , she did not find it . |
| 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 | They were meant to be The Rolling Stones of their time . |
| 7 | In the hospital kitchen there was a gulf between those who were meant to be in charge and those who actually carried out the work . |
| 8 | ‘ I think , ’ Doyle murmured , ‘ that you have forgotten what you were meant to be doing . ’ |
| 9 | It was how things were meant to be . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some rules were meant to be broken . |
| 12 | Despite the way these are sometimes now staged , these ottocento operas were meant to be taken seriously . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The National Sound Archive does n't claim to be the natural home for gramophones or other equipment , but it does have a small historical collection , because to understand the recordings , some knowledge of how they were meant to be played is desirable . |
| 15 | I thought that job applications were meant to be treated in confidence . |
| 16 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 17 | They can never realize the parental aspiration other than in a superficial way , and they are left not only with the envy of the sex they were meant to be , but also unable to enjoy the sex which they are and the advantages which pertain to it . |
| 18 | Such promises were meant to be fulfilled in the life of Israel in the provisions of the year of Jubilee scheduled for every forty-nine years . |
| 19 | They were meant to be devoid of personal feelings , deadpan , like lawyers who had to defend a case they did n't believe in , who went home at the end of the day leaving all their patients ' foibles filed away in their consulting rooms . |
| 20 | That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in . |
| 21 | You do n't have to go on about , ‘ I love you , you love me , we were meant to be ’ . |
| 22 | Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle . |
| 23 | The changes were meant to be implemented by 1998 , by which time juniors would spend an average of 6.5 years in the combined registrar and senior registrar grades . |
| 24 | And what do you think of the idea of ways that the , that the way the house types were graded , the fact that some of them were in fact meant to be executive or managerial classes and others were meant to be for people with less income , do you think that this is again recreating this sort of class system within the planning of the town ? |
| 25 | Not all hoards were meant to be recovered : some were deliberately buried as religious offerings and sacrifices . |
| 26 | The Daleks themselves , when you saw them , were meant to be entirely different from human beings , with a city that was built without any regard for human concepts of scale , size and functioning . |
| 27 | In theory , Verity and Lewis were meant to be giving me a lift in four days time , but that was obviously out , now . |
| 28 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 29 | Well , when Wyn had his stethoscope in his ears I wondered if they were meant to be him . |
| 30 | I guess we were meant to be , however much we try to fight it . |