Example sentences of "[is] supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas cards , chocolate boxes and tourist literature , proclaiming a timeless tradition that is supposed to be the envy of the world . |
| 2 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 3 | But somewhat surprisingly ( given that the representational theory of the mind is supposed to be a theory of thinking , not of how we handle inputs ) he concludes that a psychology of the central systems is beyond our reach : the more global a mental process is the less we are likely to understand about it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The same happens during the pas de deux that is supposed to be with Lise . |
| 6 | Hans Modrow , Party leader in Dresden , is supposed to be a reformist , but there is no evidence for this . |
| 7 | One senior delegate , who asked not to be identified , said yesterday : ‘ The problem is Lapointe is supposed to be the servant of CITES , not its boss . ’ |
| 8 | This is supposed to be a stag party , not an annual general meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ Piss is supposed to be good for warts , ’ Arty said . |
| 10 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 11 | Time does n't define what feminism is supposed to be , yet claims to find a schism between the older generations of women who started the fight for economic , political and social equality and today 's generations who seem complacent or angry about what women 's liberation has achieved . |
| 12 | Little Bear , who is supposed to be asleep , keeps interrupting him — he 's scared of the dark and not even the biggest lantern from the cupboard can light up the night looming beyond the cave . |
| 13 | But God is supposed to be over our heads — that is the whole point , he said . |
| 14 | But God is supposed to be over our heads — that is the whole point , he said . |
| 15 | It is supposed to be the boring part of the journey and if the train were on time would be crossed at night . |
| 16 | Subsidies will be halved and the balancing of the budget is supposed to be achieved by limiting central investments and cutting expenditure on the security forces and the army . |
| 17 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |
| 18 | Less predictable is the discovery that younger Russian poets also write the kind of private , introspective verse that is supposed to be peculiarly western — Polina Ivanovna 's ‘ No one 's here ’ is a good example of that . |
| 19 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 20 | That all men laugh is supposed to be demonstrated from the premisses that all men are rational and that all rational things laugh . |
| 21 | Mind you , it 's not the size of the workload that matters — after all , gardening is supposed to be fun — but the agony of deciding which jobs to do first . |
| 22 | ‘ I rather like the way you are coping with that boring old hang-up of who or what the narrator of a novel is supposed to be , ’ he began again . |
| 23 | There 's no place like Home , provided you can make up your mind where on earth that place is supposed to be . |
| 24 | Although Dundalk is supposed to be a seaside town , I could find no trace of a harbour . |
| 25 | Jennings asks : ‘ How can a man who was a fascist run an organisation which is supposed to be non-discriminatory ? ’ |
| 26 | While seas and rivers may be dirty , British tapwater is supposed to be pure , and its pollution causes more concern than any other . |
| 27 | This is supposed to be a social occasion . ’ |
| 28 | It all depends on the person over whom authority is supposed to be exercised : his knowledge , strength of will , his reliability in various aspects of life , and on the government in question . |
| 29 | The conflict in which the state is supposed to be neutral is about the ability of people to choose and successfully pursue conceptions of the good ( and these include ideals of the good society or world ) . |
| 30 | The solicitor is supposed to be going up to Edinburgh , to see him . ’ |