Example sentences of "[be] meant to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're meant to be a bunch so wedded to the mainland , so loyal to the English crown , that they 'd even fight against the government if they thought it necessary . |
| 2 | Me , I 'm meant to be a Catholic . |
| 3 | I 'm meant to be an actor . |
| 4 | I er er I serve our people with quantity of food that 's supposed to be meant to be a dinner for an old old age person . |
| 5 | The Land Rover had originally been meant to be no more than a safety net . |
| 6 | Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull were meant to be a more intelligent kind of music which appealed to sixth formers , like me . |
| 7 | They were meant to be a pro group while we were just starting out . |
| 8 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 9 | They were meant to be The Rolling Stones of their time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With such an inauspicious start to the congress which is meant to be a demonstration of unity , the organisers have had to take precautions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This book is meant to be a layman 's guide to the evolution of the smaller English house . |
| 14 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |
| 15 | But this guitar is meant to be a tribute and if you are going to do the job properly , then details like this should n't be overlooked , whether the Floyd is better or not than the original . |
| 16 | This book is meant to be a starting point , a complete source book that enables the knitter to begin creating original and distinctive fabrics . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As the skin is meant to be a barrier , you would not want any cleansing product to penetrate too deeply — nor do they . |
| 19 | It is meant to be a 12 day walk but because of its convoluted shape the circuit can easily be shortened , for instance two of the days are more or less optional . |
| 20 | ‘ If you have a room which is meant to be a meeting place of all the chief Daleks , and what they 're talking about is power — power over other civilisations , power over other planets — then power and domination is what comes through in the dialogue , and is the feeling behind what you want to create . |
| 21 | If the hero is meant to be a man of authority used to being obeyed , he should be shown as such and the other characters should react to him accordingly … |
| 22 | No universal rule can be stated , because examiners differ in their practice , but nearly always there is meant to be a connection , at least if the two parts of the question are not subdivided by numbers or letters . |
| 23 | Under the 1977 Health Service Act this is meant to be a ‘ full cost ’ fee which the Secretary of State fixes . |
| 24 | The pattern on its back is meant to be a charm , you see , for easing childbirth . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm not in the mood for co-stars : this is meant to be a solo . |
| 26 | Everything that 's happened here , everything that 's gone wrong , is meant to be a part of some coherent plan — the overthrow of O'Neill , the destruction of the power sharing , the jamming of the Anglo-Irish Agreement works , screwing poor old Peter Brooke . |
| 27 | They use a lot yeah the ch I put it in my I mean , I said yesterday to him , we 've got the decorators in and then co they turned round and said he is meant to be a businessman and they said he can not believe they 've never met tha such a penny pinching guy |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | None of these mixed spices is meant to be the full flavouring of a dish . |