Example sentences of "[noun prp] be supposed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the story , Cain and Abel were supposed to be the sons of Adam and Eve . |
| 2 | And Angèle Didier is supposed to be an opera singer , an experienced woman of the world . |
| 3 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 4 | Moira McVitie is supposed to be intelligent as well . |
| 5 | Yet while InterCity is supposed to be one business , offering consistent standards throughout Britain , many regional differences in what the traveller actually experiences die slowly . |
| 6 | Well er , the Tuesday is supposed to be furniture restoration , that 's what it 's been |
| 7 | In this sketch , Ken was supposed to be shot dead . |
| 8 | Once , during the shooting of Carry On Regardless , Ken was supposed to be at the Ideal Home Exhibition . |
| 9 | Someone from the Banco D'Oro was supposed to be meeting her , and this remote blond god certainly did n't look like a bank official — though he might have been Signor Corosini . |
| 10 | Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight . |
| 11 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 12 | Monty was supposed to be on the wagon and I certainly did n't see him drinking , until I discovered that every time he passed the bar he 'd pick up any bottle that was on the bar and drink it . |
| 13 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 14 | You and Joey are supposed to be on the same team . |
| 15 | Although Dundalk is supposed to be a seaside town , I could find no trace of a harbour . |
| 16 | Well Harold was supposed to be , he has n't got time . |
| 17 | DEC and Microsoft said that they expect NT-on-Alpha , which they are jointly engineering , to be a high-volume , multi-sourced platform for users , software developers , systems designers and chip manufacturers — exactly the same thing ACE was supposed to be . |
| 18 | The title Fergie may or may not be allowed to keep is also certain to come under review , along with the cash settlement Bryan was supposed to be negotiating . |
| 19 | Harry is supposed to be coming home to take up his inheritance of the family estate , but the emotional pressures of his family force him to escape instead to become a medical missionary . |
| 20 | THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL is supposed to be a neato film . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not sure that man Kennedy that Nicola was supposed to be meeting ever existed . ’ |
| 22 | That was not where Palestine was supposed to be . |
| 23 | The next two cases , however , show a broader understanding of what ACAS was supposed to be doing . |
| 24 | But God is supposed to be over our heads — that is the whole point , he said . |
| 25 | But God is supposed to be over our heads — that is the whole point , he said . |
| 26 | When Jack and Alison were in the house together by day they were in the studio ( where Jack was supposed to be teaching Alison to paint ) or else in the drawing room , often watching television . |
| 27 | ‘ Cars produced in Europe are supposed to be European cars ’ , Mr Frans Andriessen , the EC 's External Relations Commissioner said . |
| 28 | The UK Yuppy is supposed to be a young ( 24-35 ) , well educated and upwardly mobile professional ( male or female ) . |
| 29 | Although Groupe Bull SA Bull is supposed to be handling the RS/6000 's multi-processing under its recently struck accord with IBM — see page four — it seems doubtful the French are making much of an impact on this particular machine . |
| 30 | I mean , Britain is supposed to be one of the , the founding countries as far as democracy is concerned . |