Example sentences of "who [was/were] supposed to be [art] " in BNC.

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1 In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’
2 No sooner had Mr Mason joined the group of guests than a servant entered to announce the arrival of an old gipsy woman , who was supposed to be a skilled fortune-teller .
3 You know where there was that there was the young girl and there was the old wo , oldish woman who was supposed to be a film star or something ?
4 Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat ,
5 Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout .
6 In his panegyric on Majorian , Sidonius Apollinaris records the defeat of Chlodio , who was supposed to be the father of Merovech , at the vicus Helena in Artois .
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