Example sentences of "[be] supposed [prep] be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , as I told Dick Treadwell , we 're supposed to be colleagues . |
| 2 | No they 're supposed to be brothers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These these black blobs are supposed to be proteins and and I 've tried to er illustrate the orientation of the protein by showing these er these supposedly er glyco er substi substituents on the outside of the cell . |
| 5 | Furthermore , whales are supposed to be mammals who returned to a life in the sea — so , if the evolutionary theory contained all the answers , why should they have ever lost what to most mammals is an exquisite and finely tuned sense organ ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We are supposed to be revolutionaries , fighting for a sacred cause . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Women were supposed to be incidentals . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought , ’ said Robert , grimly , ‘ that we were supposed to be Muslims . ’ |
| 11 | An early oval fort of pre-Roman times with a later broch in one corner , perhaps added by the Votadini even though they were supposed to be collaborators with the Roman occupiers . |
| 12 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 13 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 14 | He noted that teachers as a group were supposed to be agents of change , ‘ but the environment within which the teacher operates has not changed ’ . |
| 15 | Why did Japanese stop calling their brother Turkish baths , number , nobody understood they were supposed to be brothers , brothels , sorry |
| 16 | One cause of asthma is supposed to be allergies |
| 17 | That part of the East Palace was supposed to be off-bounds while Li Yuan was away . |
| 18 | I mean the rumours were that he was gon na go to Cheam , he was supposed to be Saturdays for Cheam . |