Example sentences of "[det] be meant to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 2 | Henson has done a lovely job of placing his famous characters in the novel 's context while never letting us forget that this is meant to be a huge extravaganza . |
| 3 | And this is meant to be hush-hush . |
| 4 | Under the 1977 Health Service Act this is meant to be a ‘ full cost ’ fee which the Secretary of State fixes . |
| 5 | This is meant to be the sexy bit , but do n't get excited , chums . |
| 6 | I 'm not in the mood for co-stars : this is meant to be a solo . |
| 7 | This is meant to be something special . ’ |
| 8 | There 's no toilets , nothing for them , I mean they 're doing everything in public , I mean it 's not right , it 's making life bad and this is meant to be a holiday resort . |
| 9 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 10 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 11 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 12 | Biff Vokins looked up from his desk — this was meant to be a private study period — and gave an enquiring glance . |
| 13 | It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought this was meant to be a friendly chat not a bloody interrogation . ’ |
| 15 | An essential requirement surely , if this was meant to be in any way a useful gift , would be an adequate number of notes . |
| 16 | This was meant to be the happy day when a group of volunteers from Berkeley , brought 40 children from the war in Bosnia , to the safety of Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | But this was meant to be a family day … and they came in their thousands … the Shetland Pony Grand National was as big an attraction as the thoroughbred races . |
| 18 | These are meant to be informal , but will be conducted in front of judges with legal teams on either side . |
| 19 | Each is meant to be an improvement on the overwhelming developers architecture of the Sixties , of which Hammersmith is a shrine . |
| 20 | You could actually work it out the longhand way , the way that we 've described it Yeah I think you 'll find that that 's meant to be X and X |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose that 's meant to be a trick question ? ’ |
| 22 | Well , unless I get some it 's there what that 's meant to be . |
| 23 | ‘ That was meant to be sarcastic . ’ |
| 24 | That was meant to be a joke ! ’ |
| 25 | It is probably a minority of medieval antifeminist writing that was meant to be taken literally rather than metaphorically ; even Jerome 's model diatribe was a rhetorical exercise designed for the refutation of Jovinianus and the assertion of the value of celibacy . |
| 26 | It was also a display of independence from Washington that was meant to be noticed elsewhere , particularly in Moscow . |
| 27 | I think that was meant to be the — er — general idea , ’ she muttered , staring down at her glass as she strove for composure . |
| 28 | Oh I did n't know that was meant to be him . |