Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy . |
32 | 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 . |
33 | They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ . |
34 | 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 . |
35 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
36 | The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard . |
37 | 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 . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | 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 . |
41 | New immunosuppressive agents have been used recently and are claimed to be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease . |
42 | 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 . |
43 | The men are claimed to be dishonest and immoral . |
44 | These are claimed to be fatigue-resistant to cope with the high amplitude vibrations that are generated by fast stunters . |
45 | 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 . |
46 | 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 . |
47 | 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 . |
48 | The new U/V units from Aegean are claimed to be unique as their body casing and other parts are purpose designed and made . |
49 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |
50 | The life-times of Digital Audio Tapes ( DAT ) and Exabyte tapes ( similar to home video cassettes ) are claimed to be longer , but how will they perform over ten , twenty or fifty years ? |
51 | It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ . |
52 | Results this year are expected to be better than last . |
53 | Accountants are expected to be loyal first and foremost to their company , and not to their profession . |
54 | US companies are expected to be involved in the research , backed by £65 million of EC money . |
55 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
56 | The first products supporting the Telnet/OLTP extensions are expected to be available in the middle of the year . |
57 | They work six days a week or more , on no fixed terms , with no formal protection and are expected to be available all day long including late into the evening . |
58 | Some development work has already been done by pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of bottles and caps , and satisfactory child resistant containers are expected to be available for use with liquid medicines in the near future . |
59 | The new integrated SVQs , probably at levels II and III , are expected to be available in early autumn 1992 . |
60 | Full-year results for the bank are expected to be higher than last year . |