Example sentences of "[be] designed to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bright states in his introduction that the " audience is seen as academic and professional , but interdisciplinary ; thus articles are designed to be intelligible and useful to people in related disciplines " ( Vol.1 , p. ix ) . |
| 2 | Bernstock & Speirs ' hats are designed to be easy to wear . |
| 3 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 4 | The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance . |
| 5 | More problematic for the school as a whole are those initiatives that are designed to be cross-curricular and pervasive : language across the curriculum , maths across the curriculum , computing across the curriculum . |
| 6 | Many modern mains transformers are designed to be versatile , but this versatility can ( and does ) cause a certain amount of confusion . |
| 7 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
| 8 | They are designed to be equivalent in standard to existing qualifications , such as those of the RSA and CGLI , and to replace them in Scotland . |
| 9 | It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy . |
| 10 | They are designed to be portable and enable herdsmen and hunters to move around the countryside in search of new pastures for their camels , sheep and yak . |
| 11 | They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ . |
| 12 | All questions , as illustrated by the three quoted here , are designed to be brief ; Labov notes that questions formulated without preparation can often be lengthy and unclear , containing spontaneous conversation phenomena such as hesitations and false starts . |
| 13 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
| 14 | The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard . |
| 15 | They are designed to be quick to prepare and even quicker to eat and as a result are highly desirable to anyone who has a busy lifestyle . |
| 16 | Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course have not been designed to be integral with each other , students seeking entry to the degree course on the basis of the HNC/HND will normally need to take two further academic years of full-time study for a Degree and three further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) . |
| 17 | Personal R:Base has been designed to be simple to learn and use , which is true to a certain extent , as manipulating data in a pre-created database is almost self explanatory . |
| 18 | Personal R:Base has been designed to be simple to learn and use , which is true to a certain extent , as manipulating data in a pre-created database is almost self explanatory . |
| 19 | They have been designed to be relevant to both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors , and take into account the variations that there will inevitably be in organisations ' approaches to developing their people . |
| 20 | ‘ The evening has been designed to be relaxing , and to be a sociable end to a busy first day , ’ said LIBF director Brian Bradford . |
| 21 | The elegant slimline desktop case has been designed to be pleasing to the eye , and overall the machine seems to be well finished off . |
| 22 | It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference . |
| 23 | Here — ’ And he handed her the lamp , which had been designed to be portable . |
| 24 | The trails have been designed to be fun to do but with an education purpose leading children around the museum . |
| 25 | It is surely reasonable that taxes should be designed to be easy and cheap to collect , difficult to avoid and should not be a discouragement to the enterprise and effort of those paying them . |
| 26 | These will be called Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( SVQs ) , will encompass the competences identified by Industry Lead Bodies and will be designed to be compatible with NVQs awarded in the rest of the UK . |
| 27 | Alternatively , production arrangements may be designed to be flexible enough to supply target markets in a large number of relatively small and specialised niches , such as in the market for industrial or aviation control systems . |
| 28 | ‘ PCBs were designed to be inert . |
| 29 | Both UA1 and UA2 were designed to be capable of detecting W and Z particles . |
| 30 | Unless in use , both tables and chairs were ranged against the wall , where some heavier items might belong to a fixed position , forming a part of the mural decoration , while the rest were designed to be portable . |