Example sentences of "was supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 2 | For the Roman catholic social teaching of the day laid down certain things as of natural law which anyone who was reasonable and honest was supposed to be able to recognize . |
| 3 | Money was supposed to be wired to her soon from somewhere . |
| 4 | It should be noted that a similar order of precedence exists in Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet as in Petipa 's The Sleeping Beauty which was supposed to be an evocation of a court ballet at the time of Louis XIV . |
| 5 | That was supposed to be a funny song , and I ca n't understand how people could n't see it . |
| 6 | While I was supposed to be at the beck and call of not only my husband but even his parents , his going around with other women was just taken for granted . |
| 7 | Brown was supposed to be a kind of entertainer , albeit a reluctant and irritable one , and he had to sing for his supper . |
| 8 | I was supposed to be interested because the chap had sometimes been here doing electrical repairs . |
| 9 | In thirty-eight minutes flat he was supposed to be addressing a very high-powered seminar on enterprise . |
| 10 | The event was supposed to be staged a couple of weeks back , but was postponed because Lewis was said to be unwell and still in America . |
| 11 | It was unclear why the Green Berets were in the hotel when the guerrillas attacked , whether the luxury hotel was their normal billet , and what their precise mission was supposed to be . |
| 12 | The Tayif agreement was supposed to be a formula for peace , but last week it came close to becoming a recipe for one of the biggest , almost certainly the most ferocious , battles of the 14 ½-year war . |
| 13 | ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ This is Miss Huntley who was supposed to be having lunch with Angela today . ’ |
| 15 | It was supposed to be resolved at the long-awaited , and delayed , meeting in Beijing of the party 's Central Committee on December 25th-30th . |
| 16 | When he was supposed to be playing football he used to watch the parent birds taking stuff to the nest . |
| 17 | Success was supposed to be reserved for those with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 18 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
| 19 | Later at Clarissa 's theatre she wanted to know why if he was supposed to be a soldier , he was n't confined to barracks or whatever they did to recruits . |
| 20 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 21 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 22 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
| 23 | Laying bare the ugliest , most banal side of life in America , Koons ' work packed an emotional wallop that jarred even the most jaded , and raised unsettling new questions about what art was supposed to be . |
| 24 | Even the rain was supposed to be radio-active after the long series of 1954–5 tests . |
| 25 | For a moment he was not even sure who he was supposed to be . |
| 26 | For a moment he was not even sure who he was supposed to be . |
| 27 | She begged him to see this new doctor who , she said , was supposed to be very good , very sympathetic . |
| 28 | But in Britain , television , like the cod-liver oil forced down the gagging throats of Welfare-State children , was supposed to be good for you . |
| 29 | This war that I was in , you know , was supposed to be clandestine … |
| 30 | The enemy in the contra case was supposed to be the Sandinistas ; but North 's enemies were evidently domestic , political and unarmed , except with bothersome statutes . |