Example sentences of "[am/are] meant [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're meant to be respectable , you are , ’ she said . |
| 2 | They 're meant to be dull . |
| 3 | I 'm meant to be well now and it 's not much cop . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm meant to be fair ? |
| 5 | I 'm meant to be dead , pinned . |
| 6 | I 'm meant to be calm ? |
| 7 | Well I 'm meant to be funny darling . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 9 | Winter puddings are meant to be lavish . |
| 10 | I do n't think our strengths are meant to be equal . |
| 11 | But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ My mother never makes cakes that are meant to be dry and crumbly , ’ said Mortimer . |
| 14 | Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members . |
| 15 | Words which are meant to be comforting and familiar may be frightening or threatening . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These tasks are meant to be stressful and to show how well the student can use the languages in difficult circumstances . |
| 18 | I think er a number of the things that are , are meant to be provocative this morning , for example how we get a clinical er evaluation er of patients selected for a T U R P or earlier treatment B P H , but also now |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These are meant to be informal , but will be conducted in front of judges with legal teams on either side . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps elephants are meant to be fat , ’ says her son Luke plaintively . |
| 22 | It should have been a problem because the personal details of Flora are meant to be secret , under the terms of a high court injunction granted in the middle of last month , Sarah is not allowed to discuss anything about her daughter with anyone , other than her legal and medical advisors . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After all , ’ she continued , fixing her smile , forcing herself to look into those eyes that were so deep she felt she could drown in them , ‘ life 's too short for moping about and parties are meant to be fun , are n't they ? ’ |