Example sentences of "were designed [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ PCBs were designed to be inert . |
| 2 | To aggravate all this further , the records all sound as though they were designed to be played on compact disc . |
| 3 | GCE O level and CSE were designed to be wholly different kinds of examinations . |
| 4 | Both UA1 and UA2 were designed to be capable of detecting W and Z particles . |
| 5 | Five 60 second television advertisements were designed to be shocking and fully realistic . |
| 6 | Unless in use , both tables and chairs were ranged against the wall , where some heavier items might belong to a fixed position , forming a part of the mural decoration , while the rest were designed to be portable . |
| 7 | Outdoor relief was removed , and the indsigent were consigned to workhouses which were designed to be punitively unattractive . |
| 8 | The Read codes were designed to be used with a computer and are therefore organised on a hierarchical structure . |
| 9 | That means that they were designed to be viewed right through at one sitting . |
| 10 | The courses were Linguistics-based and were designed to be professionally relevant in a broad sense , though they included much that made no claim to immediate practical usefulness . |
| 11 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 12 | The new courses were designed to be achieved by accumulation of credits for a pre-determined set of Higher National Units . |
| 13 | The cylinders , it was claimed , were designed to be fitted together to form the barrel of a giant 40-metre gun . |
| 14 | The motions which were chosen for debate all hovered marginally above the lowest common factor of Party opinion and were designed to be carried nem con . |
| 15 | The validation procedures were designed to be rigorous , and all levels of the CNAA took the question of rigour extremely seriously . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lang insists that the planned reforms were designed to be in the best interests of local government . |