Example sentences of "meant to [be] " 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 | Meanwhile the interesting Hawksmoor is less interesting than Dyer , and may be meant to be . |
| 3 | Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well it 's meant to be the fucking opposite and it is the fucking opposite . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't see how it was meant to be funny . |
| 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 | Each is meant to be an improvement on the overwhelming developers architecture of the Sixties , of which Hammersmith is a shrine . |
| 10 | With such an inauspicious start to the congress which is meant to be a demonstration of unity , the organisers have had to take precautions . |
| 11 | There is still no clarity about what sort of programme it is meant to be : but , to begin with , this is no bad thing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ A young lecturer is meant to be able to get friends without paying for them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's meant to be theatrical , by which I do n't mean lasers and fireworks . |
| 15 | People could borrow from the social fund , he said , and get money that was interest-free , but money was taken from their income support immediately , even though that support was meant to be the lowest level of income on which one could cope . |
| 16 | She was n't meant to be happy , she was meant to be with me . |
| 17 | She was n't meant to be happy , she was meant to be with me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For a child of five this was a terrifying experience , although it was meant to be a birthday treat . |
| 20 | Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull were meant to be a more intelligent kind of music which appealed to sixth formers , like me . |
| 21 | They were meant to be a pro group while we were just starting out . |
| 22 | They were meant to be for his weight but I 'm not sure I believe that . |
| 23 | She was meant to be thinking about happy things . |
| 24 | She was meant to be persuading herself that life was worth living . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And I 'm meant to be on holiday . |
| 27 | There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Trade unions , it they are involved at all , are not meant to be militant . |
| 30 | It 's odd by current supercar standards because as BMW 's 300bhp V12 engine was never meant to be a stressed item — it is carried in a subframe sling — but otherwise it looks like it could be built tomorrow . |