Example sentences of "supposed [to-vb] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patriarchs of that distant agrarian culture are supposed to have been motivated by the rights of farm animals to do what comes naturally to them . |
| 2 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 3 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 4 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 5 | The empty chambers are usually supposed to have been filled with gas , which help to give the animal buoyancy , and via the siphuncle the animal can vary its buoyancy to control its position in the water column . |
| 6 | Many of them , for example , were supposed to have been born of a god and a virgin . |
| 7 | The earliest record of Prague is supposed to have been documented in the 9th century . |
| 8 | I am not sure whether John was aware of a tradition among some of his distant cousins that the family originated from Poland , possibly in a Count Cranko , romantically supposed to have been descended from the founder of the city of Krakow . |
| 9 | Road signs were supposed to have been erected at the mouth of the carriageway as soon as Benin 's car had passed through , warning motorists of an impending dynamite blast and rerouting them on to another section of the motorway . |
| 10 | The present building is supposed to have been erected in 1333 , when the church was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslerton and housed six chaplains and three clerks . |
| 11 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 12 | , endowed by the goldsmith to James VI and I. This magnificent Tudor building , supposed to have been based on designs of Inigo Jones , was begun in 1628 . |
| 13 | ‘ You can take it from me , Titron was supposed to have been melted off the face of the earth . |
| 14 | By now , almost eight years had elapsed since the birth of the Directive , and three years had gone by since the nitrate limits were supposed to have been complied with . |
| 15 | By Elizabethan times it was familiar in every garden , and frequently referred to in records of the 13th and 14th centuries , although officially it is not supposed to have been introduced until 1573 . |
| 16 | The Carlow Stone on the shore is supposed to have been hurled at the selfish inhabitants of the village by a giant . |
| 17 | Whether Leonard shares the old belief that the spice-box also honours Adam , who was supposed to have been bestowed with a ‘ higher soul ’ on the Sabbath , we can not say . |
| 18 | These wedges were then supposed to have been soaked in water until the rock split along the required line . |