Example sentences of "[be] [adv] supposed to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they do not have a lifelong partner , they are not supposed to be sleeping or have sexual relationships with anyone . |
| 2 | ‘ Chiggers are not supposed to be able to breed on human protein , but a year after the itching began again on my ankles , though not as bad as before . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah cos they 're not supposed to , you see there again , Down 's Syndrome children are not supposed to be able to float . |
| 4 | Bankers and international business persons are not supposed to be natural campaigners , but they have proved themselves a match for this moment . |
| 5 | You 're not supposed to be egotistical . ’ |
| 6 | You 're not supposed to be aware of it , you 're supposed to say normal , we sat in a pub last night and this man started telling me a dirty joke , so that 's on it . |
| 7 | The terms under which Truman created the NSA and what it was meant to do are still supposed to be secret even today . |
| 8 | I 'm not supposed to be interested , is it ? |
| 9 | Specials are n't supposed to be nutty . |
| 10 | Felicitys were not supposed to be irresistible to men . |
| 11 | Oh you were n't supposed to be able to read it . |
| 12 | Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred . |
| 13 | ( Well , death is not supposed to be nice . ) |
| 14 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 15 | So that 's why Well well done at least it was a a time question of course time pressure is supposed to be there it 's not supposed to be nice and comfortable |
| 16 | Decision-making is also supposed to be different in Japanese companies as power is pluralized in consensual mechanisms such as ringi-sei . |
| 17 | That is n't supposed to be posh |
| 18 | I know this man-woman thing is n't supposed to be easy , but I just wonder how two people who care so much for each other have managed to spend so much time beating each other up , ’ Vitor said wryly . |
| 19 | At work there is a great deal of empiricism — sometimes it becomes almost a mystique , as in the steel-making process where the head melter was once supposed to be able to tell whether the melt was ‘ done ’ by spitting into it . |
| 20 | Bowie was also supposed to be involved in the score for the film — but eight weeks from its world première in London on Boxing Day , December 26 , 1989 , distributors Warner Brothers were as confused as those working on the film . |
| 21 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |