Example sentences of "[be] supposed to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 're dead naff , right , cos Steve Wright in the afternoon as a thing , he says , he says , what do you want Essex girl and he 's said something funny she 'll , she 'll go , you crack me right up you do , you make me crack right up , right and they 're suppose and they are , well I do n't know , but they 're supposed to be really naff |
| 2 | Somebody comes quick and wants the caravan they 're supposed to be there ready ! |
| 3 | I mean basically areas that are supposed to be sustainably forested |
| 4 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is n't seen as a feminine quality , confidence ; girls are supposed to be quite demure . |
| 7 | Aeroplanes used to h made of wood and gliders still are ; wooden ships are supposed to be more robust in ice than steel ones . |
| 8 | White and cream and yellow and gold did not to everyone seem entirely appropriate shades to represent the Headleands , whose natural colouring , as in a party game , might have been supposed to be more primary , more violent , more extreme , more robust . |
| 9 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 'm supposed to be eternally childlike and curious … ’ |
| 11 | Whereas fascists and anti-semites were free to libel Jews as a group in the most foul language in their publications , the Jews were supposed to be more English than the English according to Morrison . |
| 12 | Identical twins were supposed to be very close to each other , and as they were also born under Gemini there was a double bond . |
| 13 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 14 | In Saussure 's original exposition , signifier and signified , though distinct and only arbitrarily related , were supposed to be as indivisible as the two sides of a piece of paper . |
| 15 | But though everyone acts for himself , his knowledge of what others are doing is supposed to be generally sufficient to prevent him from taking a lower or paying a higher price than others are doing . |
| 16 | It 's on at the Lyceum and is supposed to be frightfully good . |
| 17 | Less predictable is the discovery that younger Russian poets also write the kind of private , introspective verse that is supposed to be peculiarly western — Polina Ivanovna 's ‘ No one 's here ’ is a good example of that . |
| 18 | ( It is a restaurant for Szechuan food , S.W. China , which is supposed to be very good , but very hot . ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Hookworm is supposed to be very debilitating . |
| 20 | Federal highway engineers in the US are promoting a new material based on epoxy resin which is supposed to be more durable . |
| 21 | Hartz mountain is supposed to be really wonderful . |
| 22 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 23 | For vendors and users committed to standards , often said to be a weak spot in Sybase 's message , System 10 is supposed to be so standards-friendly you 'll fair quiver with joy . |
| 24 | Do you suppose that 's supposed to be dead straight that or twisted ? |
| 25 | I have n't got Q Basic 's supposed to be quite good . |
| 26 | Yeah that 's supposed to be quite good . |
| 27 | Er the centre 's supposed to be totally non-political and if it ever got political , they 'd close us down . |
| 28 | you sweat a lot and you 're supposedly meant to feel good for so long and then it 's meant to wear off and there 's meant to be no hangover effects or nothing and that 's why it 's a designer drug and that 's why it you know , it 's supposed to be so good . |
| 29 | What 's supposed to be so attractive about it |
| 30 | ‘ It 's supposed to be half asleep , ’ he objected . |