Example sentences of "[verb] to be [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always hankered to be tall and fair , like Riborg . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On Sept. 12 ESA officials announced that its new Pegasus rocket , designed to be air-launched and to carry small satellites into orbit , would undergo its first flight test in the USA the following week . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Our approach is designed to be personal and responsive to our client 's needs . |
| 7 | Five 60 second television advertisements were designed to be shocking and fully realistic . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The matrix is designed to be flexible and adaptable so that it can readily be adjusted to respond to needs identified by users . |
| 10 | It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy . |
| 11 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 12 | It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 . |
| 13 | The crime survey carried out in Islington , by contrast , is designed to be explanatory and to predict who is most at risk ( Jones , Maclean , and Young 1986 ) . |
| 14 | This is in contrast to the sociology of knowledge which was designed to be non-evaluative and not to distinguish between false and true knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ I would like us to put a run together until the end of the season we have three games left and we have to try to be professional and win them all . ’ |
| 16 | But when a building looks a problem to sell , some planning authorities show a dangerous tendency to try to be kind and make encouraging noises that parts of the grounds might be suitable for development . |
| 17 | If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available . |
| 18 | This is a four-month period when you will need to be incisive and single-minded . |
| 19 | ( Other standards like fruit and ornamental trees will be thicker and the sacking strip will need to be wider and the actual tie bigger , but the principle remains exactly the same . ) |
| 20 | You will need to be methodical and able to communicate effectively with the ability to operate largely unsupervised . |
| 21 | Any treatment will affect the filter to some extent , so you will need to be vigilant and if you need to change any water while carrying out treatment , then the medication should be replaced in the top up water at the correct dosage . |
| 22 | You would need to be selective and have many to choose from if you wanted to make regular use of this kind of material . |
| 23 | Nicky 's conversion to Christianity shows that we do n't necessarily need to be clever and learned to find God — religion is not like finding out about astronomy or physics . |
| 24 | They may need to be bulky and unsightly in large tanks . |
| 25 | its , it , the other truck drivers and I have to say that erm to a certain extent you do need to be forceful and positive because er they need a lot of space to manoeuvre on the road and a lot of people who drive cars do n't quite realize how much space they need and if they wo n't give you the space you have to take it . |
| 26 | ‘ We will need to be passionate and chase the Russians , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ They 'll need to be ploughed and planted with a root crop for the first year . |
| 28 | Something which is professional and informative , however , does not need to be glitzy and much of the cost in preparing a brochure is in unnecessary glamour . |
| 29 | We do not need to be aggressive and anxious if we have open access to the Father , the indwelling presence of Christ in our hearts , and the guidance of the Holy Spirit . |
| 30 | At the Paradise Club they come out fighting — with a set tailored to be brash and bruising . |