Example sentences of "supposed to [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example there are supposed to be many wives who would have left their husbands long ago if they had been able to work out how to tell him they were going . |
| 2 | Last Thursday was supposed to be such a practical lesson , but when we got there Mrs Glen told us that we 'd have to carry on with our writing topic . |
| 3 | ‘ According to you , he 's supposed to be such a hard man … ’ |
| 4 | This is not what life is supposed to be all about . |
| 5 | Theridamas is supposed to be all that Persia stands for , even to the extent that he is ‘ the hope of Persia , and the very legs whereon our state doth lean as on a staff ’ . |
| 6 | I thought this was what some of your policy was supposed to be all about . |
| 7 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 8 | A cruel joke , but then it was supposed to be that . |
| 9 | Whose responsibility or whose , whose supposed to be that is irrelevant , it just needs to be cleared up . |
| 10 | I 'd say there was n't supposed to be any reason to think Harry had gone to Sam 's boatyard . |
| 11 | Well , considering there 's not supposed to be any V A T on kid 's things , I mean |
| 12 | And what , they 're supposed to be half brothers are they ? |
| 13 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Is that supposed to be some consolation ? ’ asked Connon . |
| 15 | Was that supposed to be some kind of sexual allusion ? |
| 16 | Is that supposed to be some safe |