Example sentences of "were supposed to be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were supposed to be incidentals . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought , ’ said Robert , grimly , ‘ that we were supposed to be Muslims . ’ |
| 3 | An early oval fort of pre-Roman times with a later broch in one corner , perhaps added by the Votadini even though they were supposed to be collaborators with the Roman occupiers . |
| 4 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 5 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 6 | He noted that teachers as a group were supposed to be agents of change , ‘ but the environment within which the teacher operates has not changed ’ . |
| 7 | Why did Japanese stop calling their brother Turkish baths , number , nobody understood they were supposed to be brothers , brothels , sorry |