Example sentences of "be [adv] designed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their requirements may be similar to those of others , but at present the vast majority of goods and services on offer are only designed to be user-friendly for fit , athletic members of MENSA ! |
| 2 | Furthermore , several pairs of the reaction primers can be mixed in the same tube and allowed to ‘ analyse ’ different point mutations at the same time ( all the different products of the polymerase chain reaction are deliberately designed to be different sizes ) . |
| 3 | But there are now synthetic fibres on the market which are specially designed to be light yet very warm . |
| 4 | Although they rely upon sophisticated , on-board computer technology , they are emphatically designed to be ‘ non-computers ’ as far as potential customers are concerned . |
| 5 | The banking document and estate agent 's document were both designed to be readable by lay people , and hence used language structures that could be immediately understood . |
| 6 | What is the point of decoding artefacts whose ‘ codes ’ were actually designed to be cracked , like those phoney communiqués which were fed to the German Intelligence Service during World War II ? |
| 7 | Although they all have powers either to initiate or recommend criminal prosecution , they are primarily designed to be regulatory bodies whose main weapon against corporate misbehaviour is administrative , i.e. ( occasional ) inspection coupled with ( polite ) correspondence . |
| 8 | The course is also designed to be used with parents in , for example , ‘ parenting skills ’ groups . |
| 9 | The latest type of basin is the semi-recessed countertop basin , which is often designed to be installed as part of a run of fitted bathroom units . |
| 10 | The sleek hull of a Viking boat was specially designed to be shallow enough and narrow enough for use on navigable rivers , along which Norsemen brought fire and the sword . |
| 11 | The station was consciously designed to be a civic centre with a wide range of rooms including a theatre . |