Example sentences of "they [be] supposed to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 2 | Indeed , one of Dunleavy 's key themes is the central role of state professionals and bureaucracies defending their own material positions , if necessary at the expense of the public services they are supposed to be providing . |
| 3 | At the other end , advertisers find it difficult to admit that they are supposed to be addressing an audience in middle age and onwards . |
| 4 | Sometimes they are supposed to be said by characters in the illustrations , but there is nothing to indicate who is speaking . |
| 5 | Women 's behavioural motivation is in addition conventionally gender-coded ; they are supposed to be rewarded by attention to their physical attractiveness . |
| 6 | They are supposed to be related to rental values , but little property is rented on a year-to-year basis . |
| 7 | Teachers also confess that , for the first time , they now know what they are supposed to be teaching and ( thanks to the elaborate assessment targets ) how well they are teaching it . |
| 8 | That they eat much of the crop they are supposed to be harvesting ? ’ |
| 9 | As solid insertions into the very hot gas , probes can significantly alter the local properties of a plasma that they are supposed to be measuring . |
| 10 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
| 11 | Does it even speak from some recognition , however disavowed , that police practices transgress the ‘ rules of civilized conduct ’ which they are supposed to be upholding , and nowhere more obviously than in their treatment of black people ? |
| 12 | Sports programmes do not see this as part of what they are supposed to be doing . |
| 13 | ‘ They are supposed to be doing a job of work to house people not making residents ’ lives a misery . ’ |
| 14 | Depends on the job does n't it , how much they 're using , but if they 're supposed to be using regularly , surely one person . |
| 15 | Erm The address and everything else they 're supposed to be sending . |
| 16 | You 've got to design the measures for the street they 're supposed to be implemented in |
| 17 | They 're supposed to be serving all of us . ’ |
| 18 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 19 | It 's no secret that those guerrilla bands contain a fair proportion of characters who are just as undesirable as the dictatorial governments they 're supposed to be fighting and who would have no hesitation in disposing of those $60,000 missiles , at a fraction of their cost , to any passing terrorists who , in turn , would have no hesitation in loosing off one of those missiles at a passing Boeing 747 , preferably one packed with five hundred American citizens . |
| 20 | They 'll get all worked up because they 're supposed to be fetching her . |
| 21 | They 're supposed to be giving us a face lift of . . |
| 22 | We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in |
| 23 | They 're supposed to be doing it again . |
| 24 | And if your child is dyslexic , reassure them that they are not the only child , there are other children who share this problem , that they in fact are not stupid , or mad — and quite often they think they are mad , they can understand what is wrong with them because they do n't really understand what they 're supposed to be doing . |
| 25 | Well they 're supposed to be opening on Sundays but did n't Texas and all those get fined last year ? |
| 26 | And they 're supposed to be coming boxing day . |
| 27 | They 're supposed to be coming this week but there 's nae sign of them yet . |
| 28 | I 'm very active in the Party in Manchester and er would support the union and the region er , as a constituency er constituency member and I , you know , spend hours every week trying to ke keep this , keep the Party in Manchester going and I think that what we 've actually got , what we 're seeing inside the Parliamentary Party , are a number of people who seem to have forgotten who they 're supposed to be representing . |
| 29 | They 're supposed to be confined to barracks . ’ |
| 30 | They 're , they 're , they 're put well , they 're supposed to be putting swear words in it , stuff like that you know so They they just want ordinary common or garden speech cos basically to help sort of like English students actually coming to this country you know ? |