Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [be] supposed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derry with two drummers and four fluters and a bass drummer and no it 's the truth supposed to have er cut down the size of the and for triangles they 're supposed to be er cut right to two spoons . |
| 2 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 3 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 4 | It 's no secret that those guerrilla bands contain a fair proportion of characters who are just as undesirable as the dictatorial governments they 're supposed to be fighting and who would have no hesitation in disposing of those $60,000 missiles , at a fraction of their cost , to any passing terrorists who , in turn , would have no hesitation in loosing off one of those missiles at a passing Boeing 747 , preferably one packed with five hundred American citizens . |
| 5 | Many doctors were only marginally better informed than the patients they were supposed to be treating . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Governments were under constant pressure to provide such facilities and , in addition to politicising consumption , they constantly risked running into fiscal crises themselves or charging even higher taxes on the capitalist enterprises they were supposed to be supporting . |