Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system would be designed to be particularly user-friendly , emphasising the enhancement of worker skills rather than de-skilling . |
| 2 | Its moisturising matte formula is designed to be particularly long-lasting , too . |
| 3 | This reinforces the view that EP systems should be designed to be well integrated with their environment , rather than being stand-alone systems . |
| 4 | The questionnaire was designed to be largely self-explanatory and relatively quick to complete . |
| 5 | ‘ Most of the time I live in the real Peru , ’ he told me , ‘ but the Cross Keys is designed to be Not Peru — a place where the gringo and the expat who live here all the time can escape from all the hassling , the beggars and all that crap — and relax . ’ |
| 6 | GCE O level and CSE were designed to be wholly different kinds of examinations . |
| 7 | Outdoor relief was removed , and the indsigent were consigned to workhouses which were designed to be punitively unattractive . |
| 8 | TXN 600 texturised nylon designed to be both light and hard wearing . |
| 9 | Covering 13,000 square metres and designed to be both relaxing and inspirational , the centre 's facilities are quite simply superb . |
| 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 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 12 | A touring boat is designed to be directionally stable . |
| 13 | The new 2–10 ml Finnpipette has been designed to be as simple to use as any standard volume instrument . |
| 14 | These areas are specifically set apart for retail outlets ( both large and small ) and are designed to be as convenient and pleasant as possible for both customer and retailers . |
| 15 | The AA Foundation study also suggests that car radio/cassette players should be designed to be as automatic as possible , and sold with an information leaflet highlighting the possible influences of music on driving . |
| 16 | Operation of the system by LIFESPAN users such as programmers , who are able to control what is online and what is offline , and by the offline manager who is responsible for the administration of the offline system , is designed to be as automatic and simple as possible . |
| 17 | BBCBASIC(Z80) has been designed to be as compatible as possible with Version 4 of the 6502 BBC BASIC resident in the BBC Micro Master series . |
| 18 | In addition , the coding system used to describe the condition of items was designed to be as simple and unambiguous as possible . |
| 19 | They are designed to be less restrictive than full safety helmets and are known as ‘ bump caps ’ . |
| 20 | Usually , it has been designed to be highly amplified in a night-club . |
| 21 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 22 | Anyway , they dismantled the bed and I was left with a strip blanket [ a sheet of heavy material designed to be almost impossible to tear ] and a mattress , one heavy black mattress . |
| 23 | P was designed to be more depth-first . |
| 24 | The W algorithm was designed to be more breadth-first , and more consistent results were expected regardless of the input conditions . |
| 25 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 26 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 27 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 28 | Through careful negotiation with the client it is important that each stage on the programme is designed to be only approximately ten units of anxiety or difficulty greater than the previous stage . |
| 29 | Could cars be designed to be much more efficient than the eighteen percent you quote ? |
| 30 | Generally , the taxpayer will seek to be not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |