Example sentences of "was supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The scandal 's single and notorious poem , read out by Owen as his last word at the hearings , was supposed to be about Nicaragua , but again this was no real country . |
| 32 | It really freaks me to think that people have travelled from all over Britain to this — even though it was supposed to be secret . |
| 33 | ‘ I thought this was supposed to be the goody , goody girl I live next door to , ’ said one wide-eyed recording chief as he watched Kylie cavort provocatively below him . |
| 34 | MANY East Germans are now wondering whether opening the files has been the cleansing it was supposed to be . |
| 35 | Yesterday Mr David Moores , the club 's chairman and a close friend , said : ‘ He is such a fitness fanatic that last year , when he was supposed to be on five days ’ holiday at my house , he was on my front lawn every morning doing exercises ’ . |
| 36 | The day of his accident was supposed to be one of the happiest of Harvey 's life . |
| 37 | It was supposed to be very good , but all wine tasted alike to him . |
| 38 | He was supposed to be someone you were afraid of . |
| 39 | It was supposed to be funny , but Clive thought Amelia 's kinkiness could get monotonous after a while . |
| 40 | To begin with , dams create lakes behind them , and the one that was to build up behind Aswan , Lake Nasser , was supposed to be 500 km in length , with a surface of 5100 square km . |
| 41 | The God believed in by Jews , Hindus and Christians , is not like the pagan God , Atlas , who was supposed to be underneath the world propping it up on his shoulders . |
| 42 | Although the Atlantic dump site was supposed to be of low fishing interest , the Rainbow Warrior had regularly seen fishing boats in the area . |
| 43 | By 1920 , there could be a pause for breath , an attempt to remember what the meaning of the revolution was supposed to be . |
| 44 | It was supposed to be a paragon of democracy in an Arab world more familiar with dictatorship than freedom . |
| 45 | That was not where Palestine was supposed to be . |
| 46 | When Jack and Alison were in the house together by day they were in the studio ( where Jack was supposed to be teaching Alison to paint ) or else in the drawing room , often watching television . |
| 47 | It was not like any previous architecture because it was supposed to be expendable . |
| 48 | He did not know who he was supposed to be — the child-wife , the monstrous heroine , the burner of men 's bodies , the woman of independent means , the beloved and expensive son ? |
| 49 | In his early thirties , he was supposed to be the coming man at SIS . |
| 50 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 51 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 52 | I was supposed to be going back to my home , but I finished up driving to Lyle Towers with his clubs and the Open trophy . |
| 53 | This was supposed to be said in the tone of one dealing with news of some immense natural disaster . |
| 54 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 55 | Michael 's parable reminded me of Jules Verne 's Albatross , a flying machine with seventy-six propellers , which was supposed to be modelled on the flight of a bird . |
| 56 | It was supposed to be Mrs Friar 's turn to proffer a tit-bit . |
| 57 | Most serious of all , chaos blighted both policy and politics as what was supposed to be the creative tension with the Treasury deteriorated into petty demarcations and empire-building . |
| 58 | Each section was supposed to be heated by a coke fired tortoise stove and large hot water pipes but in mid-winter it was really cold unless you were lucky enough to sit near the fire . |
| 59 | The Cake Walk was supposed to be a most daring ride although if you held the rail whilst progressing around the U-shaped walk as it tossed like a rough sea , it was n't too bad . |
| 60 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |