Example sentences of "[noun] [be] supposed to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts are supposed to be vigilant on behalf of the citizen , and mindful of the liberty to go about one 's lawful business . |
| 2 | The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessible universe . |
| 3 | so that roof 's supposed to be green then |
| 4 | Moira McVitie is supposed to be intelligent as well . |
| 5 | Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight . |
| 6 | The Marines were supposed to be afraid of nothing , but the sight of the villagers clawing their way back into the world was too much . |
| 7 | ‘ Piss is supposed to be good for warts , ’ Arty said . |
| 8 | Wales rugby is supposed to be resurgent , so they had better look at things off the pitch as well as on it . ’ |
| 9 | Such judgements are supposed to be true or false in a fairly straightforward way , and to be testable by empirical enquiry or perhaps appeal to the common experience of the human race . |
| 10 | The long-promised higher frequency Vikings that would go a ways to proving Sparc 's scalability are supposed to be producible by the end of the fourth quarter or the first part of the new year , according to TI . |
| 11 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 12 | Rattlesnakes are supposed to be common , though they are generally shy and silent and we did n't see any trace of them . |
| 13 | In a society in which each community is supposed to be autarchic and to supply its own needs , the full implementation of the nationality principle is impossible ; national freedom is necessarily denied to small nations , the nations whose territory provides less favourable conditions for production . |
| 14 | My own view is that , if you want really high-quality fish , and can possibly afford them , now is the time to buy , Good , old-fashioned haggling is supposed to be alien to the British nature , but we are rediscovering the art — which applies to Koi just as much as to motor cars or kitchen units ! |
| 15 | All the colonists were supposed to feed themselves , though each of the plots was supposed to be left half-covered with forest . |
| 16 | The place was supposed to be dangerous because the path was too narrow between the gorse bushes and the edge : it stood to reason , she stumbled over in the wind . |
| 17 | For someone whose nature was supposed to be grasping , Nicholas was remarkably generous to the Turks at the peacemaking . |
| 18 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 19 | Even the rain was supposed to be radio-active after the long series of 1954–5 tests . |
| 20 | In the conceptual case , each example 's properties are supposed to be precise and discrete . |
| 21 | Bank and building society managers are supposed to be approachable : if yours is not then change to another branch . |
| 22 | If education is supposed to be free , then educational materials should also be free . |
| 23 | Although such assessments are supposed to be objective , i.e. based on data , the value of such studies is necessarily limited by out-of-date official statistics in many LDCs . |
| 24 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 25 | Jackdaws are supposed to be great collectors , but even a jackdaw could not fly off with the hands , feet and eyeballs of a four year old crammed into its beak all at once . |
| 26 | ‘ Those people are supposed to be good riders , are n't they ? |
| 27 | After all , creative people are supposed to be sensitive and aware of the consumer and society and in real touch with change and mood . |
| 28 | School playgrounds are supposed to be safe places , and in general I suppose that they are . |
| 29 | I 'd accepted your disabilities while you were in hospital because to me that was the place where people were supposed to be ill . |
| 30 | The outfit is supposed to be traditional in some way , but I 've never bothered to find out how . |