Example sentences of "they [be] supposed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final and the greatest problem of the neurophysiological version of the CTP ( or , indeed , any version of the CTP ) , is that it can not explain the intentionality or ‘ aboutness ’ that connects the neural events with the object they are supposed to be perceptions of . |
| 2 | Sports programmes do not see this as part of what they are supposed to be doing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They are supposed to be easier to move than the western , garden variety . |
| 7 | At the other end , advertisers find it difficult to admit that they are supposed to be addressing an audience in middle age and onwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We find that this system works well : it avoids some of the problems arising from personalities , and it seems to be welcomed by all concerned even though self-selected referees do not always say what they are supposed to ! |
| 10 | Sex is a sensitive barometer of stress for many people : they lose interest , their bodies stop responding in the ways they are supposed to , or they find themselves feeling unusually ( and perhaps embarrassingly ) sexual . |
| 11 | Women 's behavioural motivation is in addition conventionally gender-coded ; they are supposed to be rewarded by attention to their physical attractiveness . |
| 12 | I think supposed to , they are supposed to . |
| 13 | They are supposed to be related to rental values , but little property is rented on a year-to-year basis . |
| 14 | Sometimes they are supposed to be said by characters in the illustrations , but there is nothing to indicate who is speaking . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | There are three vital programmes in which you must train your lecturers if they are to be the advisers and guides that they are supposed to be . |
| 18 | That they eat much of the crop they are supposed to be harvesting ? ’ |
| 19 | ( To ROS and GUIL ) We always use the same costumes more or less , and they forget what they are supposed to be in you see … |
| 20 | This is not confined to just making the applications do what they are supposed to but the whole concept of the Macintosh is that anyone can look after it . |
| 21 | They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice , when they want to weep with terror and self-pity . |
| 22 | But because they are supposed to be utterly other and not-us — the barbarians outside the city — and because we the powerful can not imagine the situation of being the victims of such a war , this normality is perceived as incomprehensible . |
| 23 | I know they are supposed to be a delicacy but none of our family liked to eat grouse . |
| 24 | Yet it has been convincingly shown by Spender ( 1980 ) and others that ‘ he ’ and ‘ man ’ do not include women as they are supposed to . |
| 25 | Nevertheless because they are supposed to be men of wide experience and outstanding capability the bishop may from time to time give them particular tasks to do in connection with parish priests . |
| 26 | One or two of the instructions are ambiguous , some of the parts do not fit together as they are supposed to and more than a little initiative is required to complete the project . |
| 27 | They are supposed to be among those who benefit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ They are supposed to be doing a job of work to house people not making residents ’ lives a misery . ’ |
| 30 | But on the other hand , if they are supposed to be representatives of our society , then there 's obviously something wrong , when there are so few women , compared with so few men . |