Example sentences of "be [adv] supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 're not supposed to be using a ruler Emmy . |
| 32 | So we got on that bus , and he did n't like it , this bus driver , oh , you 're not supposed to be on here |
| 33 | The terms under which Truman created the NSA and what it was meant to do are still supposed to be secret even today . |
| 34 | Scotland ‘ A ’ are also supposed to be meeting Italy on Saturday , 19th December 1992 , in Aberdeen , but one wonders how the Italians will be expected to approach this fixture . |
| 35 | The general manager of HP 's Network and Systems Division Robert Hoog and SHL Systemhouse president John Altman are also supposed to be on hand along with a representation of X/Open whose systems management workgroup interestingly enough is now charged with determining COSE 's systems management technology ( UX No 431 ) . |
| 36 | We are also supposed to be going for a trip down the Whanpoa river to the mouth of the Yangtze , in the company of some other foreign teachers who work here . |
| 37 | I 'm not supposed to be out . |
| 38 | ‘ And I 'm not supposed to be here . |
| 39 | First we had the idea of a desk , but I 'm not supposed to be a bank manager . |
| 40 | I 'm not supposed to be interested , is it ? |
| 41 | I 'm not supposed to be here at all . |
| 42 | I 'm not supposed to be eating very much for lunch so . |
| 43 | Well I 'm not supposed to be telling you it anyway ! . |
| 44 | You know , when I 'm not supposed to be out and I 'll come in at ten thirty when all the others and they do n't say anything . |
| 45 | ‘ Visitors are n't supposed to be allowed , at this time of day . |
| 46 | At this point , he remembers thinking : ‘ Perhaps M. and I are n't supposed to be lovers ? |
| 47 | Specials are n't supposed to be nutty . |
| 48 | That 's why they hung on the to the shipment cos these are n't supposed to be in the bathrooms . |
| 49 | The most common offence was to break the curfew , aliens were not supposed to be out on the streets after eleven . |
| 50 | Felicitys were not supposed to be irresistible to men . |
| 51 | ‘ You were always supposed to be the intelligent one , ’ sighs Molly , ‘ but I think Mama — God rest her soul — was maybe a little prejudiced in your favour . |
| 52 | ( Pathfinders were still supposed to be something secret , and photos of that giveaway gilt albatross were not allowed to appear in the Press . ) |
| 53 | Men are aware of their sexuality in a way they previously were n't , or were n't supposed to be . |
| 54 | We were n't supposed to be friends with people with whom we were doing business , which was probably a good idea , but just the same , I did n't know that until I began to live on Oakley Street and found out that David was very distressed . |
| 55 | ‘ You were n't supposed to be looking at me . |
| 56 | But the real problem lay in the dim realization that punks were n't supposed to be at university . |
| 57 | Cos there were n't supposed to be moving people into the flats with kids , you know with them falling down stairs and things like that . |
| 58 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 59 | There was a poet I met , quite young , who had n't ever got his poems published while he was alive , so when he discovered a computer in the office where he 'd worked , he fed all sorts of things into it which were n't supposed to be there . |
| 60 | Oh you were n't supposed to be able to read it . |