Sentence examples for supposed to prefer from inspiring English sources

Matsutake were supposed to prefer open, airy forests of pines a few decades old, and these barely came to his shoulders.

They are before-and-after pictures, and, as with all such pairings, it's sometimes difficult to tell if you're supposed to prefer the before or the after.

You're supposed to prefer the father, all graciousness and handwritten little notes, over the son, who — even in memoirs written at age 64 after two terms as president — seems callow.

The leaders are supposed to prefer the internal resources of funding.

Choosy females are supposed to prefer fertile males that display more (Chargé et al. 2010) to produce fertile and attractive sons and fertile daughters (Chargé et al. 2013).

Thus, the materials with high conductivity for the electrons transporting, large specific surface area for the CE/electrolyte contact, and high catalytic activity for the reaction of I3- to I- are supposed to be preferred characteristics for the ideal CEs in FDSSCs.

'What am I supposed to say?' He prefers to think that truth rather than cool defines him as an actor.

This was fed to a simulated user who was supposed to have a (one-dimensional) preferred steering vector.

At one point, the male tiger, Kesha, was supposed to perform a trick, but preferred to lift his hind leg and whiz on the V.I.P.s in the best seats, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.

Accommodation, according to these authors, is supposed to be hard, and therefore they prefer to assume that, in cases like (50), no presupposition is triggered to begin with.

However, the combination, which was supposed to increase sales, failed because eBay users preferred to communicate as they had always done — by e-mail.