Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | This produces a tension within the Ord. 53 procedural scheme : on the one hand , AJRs may involve factual disputes which take time to resolve properly and fairly ; on the other hand , AJR procedure is designed to be speedy . |
| 62 | If the patriotic appeal was designed to be all-embracing , the platform of support was obviously narrower . |
| 63 | The new method is designed to be permanent but the transition channel is designed to be transitory . |
| 64 | The elegant slimline desktop case has been designed to be pleasing to the eye , and overall the machine seems to be well finished off . |
| 65 | 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 . |
| 66 | No extended lines of credit , no invoicing thirty days later and all designed to be quick in-and-out operations before the tax man or the VAT man has twigged there 's anything going on at all . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | 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 ) . |
| 69 | Some of LIFFE 's products were designed to be complementary with existing and successfully established instruments in the United States : in particular currency futures and options , and interest rate derivatives based on US T-bonds and eurodollars . |
| 70 | Most camcorders arc designed to be hand-held , so the minimisation of size and weight has been an important consideration . |
| 71 | The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard . |
| 72 | The validation procedures were designed to be rigorous , and all levels of the CNAA took the question of rigour extremely seriously . |
| 73 | 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 . |
| 74 | 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 . |
| 75 | US companies are expected to be involved in the research , backed by £65 million of EC money . |
| 76 | The World Bank is expected to be involved in arranging finance for the study and for modernisation . |
| 77 | The crew is expected to be involved in networking technologies and other system software stuff . |
| 78 | A friend once remarked : ‘ We are expected to be living sacrifices , but the problem is we keep crawling off the altar . ’ |
| 79 | According to the Samuelson hypothesis , the values of β were expected to be negative . |
| 80 | The coefficient on the default risk measure is expected to be negative , so that higher default risk reduces prices and increases yields . |
| 81 | The electorate was expected to be weary of elections and possibly apathetic as well . |
| 82 | Lisa had expected to be impressed by Vass 's seaside abode . |
| 83 | Why are we expected to be stunned into admiration each day by the media , which invites us to ponder the fortune and greatness of those who are the most voracious consumers of the precious treasures of the earth ? |
| 84 | If these strands were antiparallel spin diffusion crosspeaks would be expected to be visible between G2H1 and G5H8 , and vice versa. 5122K data sets were acquired using time proportional phase incrementation ( ref. 31 ) in phase-sensitive mode , with a sweep width of 7,812.5Hz . |
| 85 | It requires the cooperation of every citizen , and no law which unreasonably infringes the freedoms of that citizen can be expected to be effective . |
| 86 | As it stands , the crucial implication of these findings , if they are correct , is that increasing the availability of support for people with adverse living circumstances in an attempt to prevent depression would not be expected to be effective . |
| 87 | While the information assembled here facilitates the design and implementation of interventions that might reasonably be expected to be effective , chapter 9 shows that there is little firm evidence to demonstrate such effectiveness in many specific high-risk situations . |
| 88 | As the OECD research group on traffic safety in residential areas has commented , ‘ signing regulations should be supported by engineering structural measures as enforcement would be expected to be minimal . ’ |
| 89 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 90 | The numbers of the skeletal elements are usually expressed as proportions of the numbers that would be expected to be present for a given number of prey individuals , which is usually the minimum number of individuals ( MNI ) . |