Example sentences of "[not/n't] mean [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 2 | ‘ I did not mean to be unkind . ’ |
| 3 | She did not mean to be swayed by Cobalt 's defence of Maurin , and yet he had undermined her confidence . |
| 4 | ‘ I did not mean to be selfish . |
| 5 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans , but we are not meant to be reading it . |
| 8 | Lacan 's work is not subject to empirical verification , and indeed is not meant to be . |
| 9 | Trade unions , it they are involved at all , are not meant to be militant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's not a particularly convincing rationale , but it 's not meant to be — any more than George Orwell was literally predicting the future in 1984 . |
| 13 | One of the musicians who played in the band with Buddie had once ruffled Frankie 's thick black hair and called him ‘ Smallfry ’ in a way that was not meant to be unkind . |
| 14 | It is not meant to be a book with the message of ‘ here 's how to cope . ’ |
| 15 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 16 | The bureaucracy was wise to balk , if only to protect itself ; the NSC , after all , was not meant to be caught up actively with either hostages or contras , and it was difficult to keep crusades covert . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not meant to be , ’ he said , rubbing his stubbly chin , staring into space . |
| 18 | This is not meant to be harassment , just a gentle reminder . |
| 19 | The early efforts are not meant to be marked on promise alone ; yet it is hard not to do that . |
| 20 | The Last Supper was not meant to be a Take-Away . |
| 21 | We girls were only the workhorses really — we read the instruments , plotted the charts , made the tea and kept the office clean , and were not meant to be able to give a weather forecast . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was just the mating of two bodies , essential for procreation , but certainly not meant to be enjoyed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Over the years , 't was not meant to be , |
| 26 | So if you programme for something which fails to materialise , then you should not blame or punish yourself , or decide it was not meant to be . |
| 27 | ( 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 . ) |
| 28 | But it was not meant to be a paean to Ecstasy . |
| 29 | I 'm obviously not meant to be rich … he says , pouring himself another beer in Spain ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But life is not meant to be easy . ’ |