Example sentences of "[adv] supposed to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unholy alliance is not only supposed to have destroyed the traditional amenities of working-class community life , but to have robbed these boys of their childhood patrimony as well ! |
| 2 | After that we 're only supposed to have bread and water for three days , while the information moves upwards to our heads . |
| 3 | We were only supposed to have two scones each , otherwise the Red Cross could n't expect to make a profit . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're only supposed to have a little at a time , ’ said Rhoda . |
| 5 | We had at least seven other buck sergeants and maybe a staff sergeant crewing airplanes which had been returned to us two or three month after the deal and at times we had as high as twenty aircraft in the squadron , that according to the er roster that you were only supposed to have twelve , but er nobody seemed to say anything about it and we did n't get any extra men , but there was at least six or seven men doing the work of master sergeants getting paid for , getting buck sergeant and staff sergeant pay for which I 'm very grateful . |
| 6 | Cardinal Wolsey , like Anne Boleyn , was thus supposed to have bewitched Henry VIII , and Oliver Cromwell was accused by his enemies of being in league with the devil on the eve of the battle of Worcester which he won . |
| 7 | Just supposed to have |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 11 | ‘ To constitute an appropriation of goods to the contract , the parties must have had , or be reasonably supposed to have had , an intention to attach the contract irrevocably to those goods . ’ |
| 12 | I think probably supposed to have fire retardant things these days . |
| 13 | Geminis are traditionally supposed to have the memory of an elephant but the concentration span of a butterfly . |
| 14 | He is also supposed to have tracked down a naturally soft plant-like plastic and a surface treatment that reflects light like the real thing . |
| 15 | I am also supposed to have died , according to the surprised traders to whom I have revealed my identity over the phone . |
| 16 | Alcohol is also supposed to have a ‘ warming up ’ effect , when in fact alcohol actually speeds up the loss of body heat , and can aggravate the problems of hypothermia . |
| 17 | It is also supposed to have a therapeutic effect of a ‘ brutal , surgical ’ separation of unconscious and rational convictions in order ‘ to cure us of our images or at least to limit their power ’ . |
| 18 | Later , a pair of heart-shaped sapphire earrings , also supposed to have been taken , were auctioned through Sotheby 's in Geneva . |
| 19 | That any new electrical goods supplied after a certain date are now supposed to have the fu the , the plug the fuse plug |
| 20 | It had been asked to do strange one-off affairs and its reports had been leaked and bandied about in Parliament and any role it was originally supposed to have , as a systematic , regular bringing-together of reports of programme analysis throughout Whitehall to present an overall strategic picture to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet , had long since disappeared . |
| 21 | It is in the area of sexuality that women are often supposed to have made great advances towards equality with men . |
| 22 | They 're not even supposed to have them . |
| 23 | But he were n't even supposed to have it , so |
| 24 | These wedges were then supposed to have been soaked in water until the rock split along the required line . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Equipped with his ring , King Solomon is commonly supposed to have spoken with animals . |
| 27 | These changes in female employment are commonly supposed to have influenced rates of family formation and dissolution . |
| 28 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 29 | This takes you up over Bwlch-y-Saethau , the Pass of the Arrows , where the battle with Mordred is actually supposed to have taken place . |