Example sentences of "[verb] to be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 2 | It was only a week since , in this very room , she had wished to be rid of Gareth Davis ; now he was dead . |
| 3 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 4 | She is designed to be handled by a minimum crew and her huge Mediterranean-style cockpit is both comfortable and secure . |
| 5 | For all its underground samizdat quality , this document is designed to be discovered in order to draw the attention of the police authorities to the strength of rank-and-file feeling . |
| 6 | These charming first class stamps are designed to be sent on greetings cards . |
| 7 | So Spenser wrote to Sir Walter Ralegh in a letter almost certainly designed to be printed with the poem . |
| 8 | In some cases , the units which make up the SVQ are designed to be assessed in the workplace by the candidate 's immediate workplace supervisor ; in other cases , the flexibility and responsiveness of the National Certificate system have allowed the Lead Body Standards to be built into National Certificate Modules . |
| 9 | The SVQs are designed to be assessed in the workplace , or , where this is not possible , in simulations which enable assessment to be undertaken to demonstrate consistent , comprehensive performance under workplace conditions including difficult and stressful circumstances . |
| 10 | Japanese Gardens are not designed to be absorbed as a whole , but as a series of harmonious elements that can nevertheless be appreciated in isolation . |
| 11 | To aggravate all this further , the records all sound as though they were designed to be played on compact disc . |
| 12 | Parts are designed to be made of single materials only , making separation during recycling much easier . |
| 13 | These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger , although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy ; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck , or simply reserved for a leisured elite . |
| 14 | Designed to be worn under a jacket to protect face and neck from midges and mosquitoes . |
| 15 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 16 | Although many compound feeds are designed to be fed on their own with pasture or hay , ( ie not mixed with other cereals ) some manufacturers make ‘ balancers ’ . |
| 17 | However , some commuters are designed with micro-instruction formats much more similar to normal machine code instruction formats , especially those computers which are designed to be microprogrammed by their users . |
| 18 | GMPTE is now launching a pilot project in Bolton for a smartcard based fare scheme which is designed to be expanded as an ‘ electronic — purse ’ so that the cards can also be used for telephones , car parks , taxis and leisure facilities . |
| 19 | As the kites are designed to be flown with verve and pulled through sharp manoeuvres , they buzz like a horde of hornets . |
| 20 | As will be demonstrated , these systems have been designed to be operated by users with little or no experience of computing . |
| 21 | Relations in databases are designed to be searched by the primary keys . |
| 22 | The new courses were designed to be achieved by accumulation of credits for a pre-determined set of Higher National Units . |
| 23 | An attractive broadside group are the so-called Beadle and Bellman 's Verses , addressed in the first half of the nineteenth century to such town and city dwellers as ‘ the worthy inhabitants of the Parish of Barnes , Surrey ’ or ‘ the worthy masters and mistresses of the Holborn End Division of the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields ’ and designed to be proclaimed by the public crier or parish bellman . |
| 24 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 25 | Remember that it was designed to be seen from 20ft below and back . |
| 26 | Any decision is designed to be met with a " yes " or agreement . |
| 27 | Similarly , while a front-end is available , the program is designed to be run from the command line , like good old PKZIP . |
| 28 | The camcorder on the right is bigger and heavier and is designed to be supported on the shoulder : compare the position of its side-mounted viewfinder with the ones on the compact machines . |
| 29 | It comprises a transmitter and a portable receiver which is designed to be moved from one location to another as required . |
| 30 | The social survey makes use of the interview and/or the questionnaire , a method of data collection obviously designed to be administered to individuals . |