Example sentences of "be supposed [verb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patriarchs of that distant agrarian culture are supposed to have been motivated by the rights of farm animals to do what comes naturally to them . |
| 2 | ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’ |
| 3 | Many of them , for example , were supposed to have been born of a god and a virgin . |
| 4 | Road signs were supposed to have been erected at the mouth of the carriageway as soon as Benin 's car had passed through , warning motorists of an impending dynamite blast and rerouting them on to another section of the motorway . |
| 5 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 6 | No but we were supposed to have been playing in er where was it ? |
| 7 | By now , almost eight years had elapsed since the birth of the Directive , and three years had gone by since the nitrate limits were supposed to have been complied with . |
| 8 | The earliest record of Prague is supposed to have been documented in the 9th century . |
| 9 | The present building is supposed to have been erected in 1333 , when the church was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslerton and housed six chaplains and three clerks . |
| 10 | The Carlow Stone on the shore is supposed to have been hurled at the selfish inhabitants of the village by a giant . |
| 11 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 12 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 13 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 14 | Whether Leonard shares the old belief that the spice-box also honours Adam , who was supposed to have been bestowed with a ‘ higher soul ’ on the Sabbath , we can not say . |
| 15 | ‘ You can take it from me , Titron was supposed to have been melted off the face of the earth . |