Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles . |
| 32 | Nowadays the victims are blamed for being vulnerable . |
| 33 | 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 ) . |
| 34 | Bernstock & Speirs ' hats are designed to be easy to wear . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Many modern mains transformers are designed to be versatile , but this versatility can ( and does ) cause a certain amount of confusion . |
| 39 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
| 46 | The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Coun Jack Warwick ( Lab ) a retired Yorkshire Water authority official and Coun Eric Dixon ( Ind ) a retired education authority officer , have both been nominated to be next Mayor of Scarborough . |
| 49 | The jury in the Mona Bauwens libel case have been discharged after being unable to reach a majority verdict . |
| 50 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 51 | The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor . |
| 52 | New immunosuppressive agents have been used recently and are claimed to be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 53 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 54 | The men are claimed to be dishonest and immoral . |
| 55 | These are claimed to be fatigue-resistant to cope with the high amplitude vibrations that are generated by fast stunters . |
| 56 | Lightweight boots with this construction are claimed to be cooler and less sweaty in hot weather , since they breathe so much more freely than leather boots . |
| 57 | When the systems of government in Britain , the United States , most of Western Europe and much of the Commonwealth are claimed to be democratic , that rests upon a view that a form of representation of the people prevails in their governmental systems . |
| 58 | Skanform panels are claimed to be ideal for covering large wall areas in environments where surfaces are constantly cleaned and a high degree of hygiene is necessary . |
| 59 | The new U/V units from Aegean are claimed to be unique as their body casing and other parts are purpose designed and made . |
| 60 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |