Example sentences of "not meant [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm obviously not meant to be rich … he says , pouring himself another beer in Spain ! ’ |
| 3 | The quality of our lives is not meant to be static . |
| 4 | The illustrations are not meant to be accurate — for use as maps — but they succeed brilliantly as indicators of the terrain likely to be found on these walks . |
| 5 | These are not meant to be comprehensive surveys of the literature , but are simply designed to illustrate the application of rational expectations to specific areas . |
| 6 | ‘ But life is not meant to be easy . ’ |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | This was distinguished from a card which merely had written or printed material on it , intended to convey information to the human eye or mind , and not meant to be ancillary to some machine by being specially shaped for that purpose . |
| 9 | Such a woman was not meant to be alone . ’ |
| 10 | Under the ASC , Statements of Standard Accounting Practice were not meant to be rigid specifications of acceptable practice but rather ‘ to narrow the areas of difference ’ between accounting practices . |
| 11 | And anyway , langlauf is not meant to be racy . |
| 12 | They 're not meant to be crude or sensationalist , they give you an idea of the kind of thing that your fire fighters face on a regular basis . |
| 13 | The checklist which follows is not meant to be all-embracing . |
| 14 | Ah yes but this is not meant to be old fashioned . |
| 15 | It 's not meant to be fun , ’ the front-seat passenger joked , the others joining in the dirty insinuating laughter . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Such laboratories were not meant to be public places , and the requirements of furnaces and sand-baths and enormous wet-batteries all pointed to the basement as the best place , although without good artificial light the hours of usefulness of basement laboratories was limited . |
| 18 | Well my my suggestion was not meant to be unhelpful er |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You fell in love with an illegitimate girl who carries her father 's name by grace and favour , not by right — never mind that I was not meant to be illegitimate ; that is what I am . |
| 21 | Trade unions , it they are involved at all , are not meant to be militant . |
| 22 | I mean that big red thing , that was n't meant to be ordinary clothes , was it ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I hope that was n't meant to be facetious , Bodie . ’ |
| 24 | No , not at all , it was n't meant to be humiliating . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's on the front line , ’ he said and it was n't meant to be enigmatic . |
| 26 | For once she had n't meant to be provocative , but Fen swore explosively and rage such as she had never seen filled his dark eyes . |
| 27 | Except for the fact that she is n't meant to be Jewish , we are in stock Jewish-mother territory . |
| 28 | If you do n't know what 's true , or what 's meant to be true , then the value of what is n't true , or is n't meant to be true , becomes diminished . |
| 29 | She was n't meant to be happy , she was meant to be with me . |
| 30 | ‘ It was n't meant to be mad . |