Example sentences of "[noun sg] be supposed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessible universe . |
| 2 | The deal is supposed to be in a part money and part swap deal bringing John Sheridan back to Elland Road . |
| 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 | so that roof 's supposed to be green then |
| 5 | The whole department 's supposed to be involved and I keep forgetting to do it , possibly deliberately . |
| 6 | Instead , ways of doing the job are broadly guided by some vaguely interpreted principles about what the organization 's legal mandate is supposed to be and organized by the experience they acquire from their membership of an enforcement bureaucracy . |
| 7 | The rule is supposed to be something we can use in order to check whether the new sensation is also a pain . |
| 8 | Actually , this might have been quite productive since therapy is supposed to be a microcosm of your relationships , with the therapist taking on multiple roles . |
| 9 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 10 | The drop in the number of people working has actually been greater in the latest recession than between 1979 and 1983 , a period when industry was supposed to be shaking out overmanned jobs . |
| 11 | So I , I , I said I 'd ring him back and , I , this bloke 's supposed to be here before one he 'd got half hour to turn up if he 's not here at one I 'm gon na ring this other one and tell him he can do it . |
| 12 | ‘ The cat is supposed to be on the broomstick , Mildred , ’ said Miss Hardbroom wearily . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replies eagerly , ‘ someone from the British Committee is supposed to be meeting me . ’ |
| 14 | In England green is supposed to be an unlucky colour . |
| 15 | ‘ Piss is supposed to be good for warts , ’ Arty said . |
| 16 | But I do n't think the Fat Controller 's supposed to be quite as nice is he ? |
| 17 | This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm . |
| 18 | Wales rugby is supposed to be resurgent , so they had better look at things off the pitch as well as on it . ’ |
| 19 | This is the sort of thing my mob is supposed to be ironing out and they dare n't admit they 've even been involved — except by whispering to people like Sprague . |
| 20 | Crudely , the more effort involved in processing a metaphor , the " better " , or the more poetic , the metaphor is supposed to be . |
| 21 | The late hit is supposed to be an asset . |
| 22 | The Mafia was supposed to be originally a subversive secret society . |
| 23 | This question was supposed to be about the Baltic states , but as we have become hooked on gold , I think that we had better have the answer . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman 's question was supposed to be about investment , but he has asked about growth in general . |
| 25 | The long-promised higher frequency Vikings that would go a ways to proving Sparc 's scalability are supposed to be producible by the end of the fourth quarter or the first part of the new year , according to TI . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Because the band were supposed to be soundchecking at six . |
| 28 | In a society in which each community is supposed to be autarchic and to supply its own needs , the full implementation of the nationality principle is impossible ; national freedom is necessarily denied to small nations , the nations whose territory provides less favourable conditions for production . |
| 29 | My own view is that , if you want really high-quality fish , and can possibly afford them , now is the time to buy , Good , old-fashioned haggling is supposed to be alien to the British nature , but we are rediscovering the art — which applies to Koi just as much as to motor cars or kitchen units ! |
| 30 | There 's no place like Home , provided you can make up your mind where on earth that place is supposed to be . |