Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New US legislation , attempting to avert another such environmental catastrophe , has introduced a requirement for tankers operating in US waters to be double-skinned in future . |
| 2 | " I did promise to be ready for nine thirty but those blasted animals just wo n't cooperate . " |
| 3 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Cx486S is designed to be pin-compatible with Intel 's 80486SX and will come in 33MHz , 40MHz and 50MHz versions , as well as a clock-doubled 25/50MHz version . |
| 6 | The machine incorporates new , more integrated and lower cost technology into the same symmetric multiprocessing architecture as the Series 400 and is designed to be cost-effective for between 40 and 400 active users . |
| 7 | Their requirements may be similar to those of others , but at present the vast majority of goods and services on offer are only designed to be user-friendly for fit , athletic members of MENSA ! |
| 8 | The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance . |
| 9 | They have been designed to be relevant to both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors , and take into account the variations that there will inevitably be in organisations ' approaches to developing their people . |
| 10 | Both UA1 and UA2 were designed to be capable of detecting W and Z particles . |
| 11 | Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course have not been designed to be integral with each other , students seeking entry to the degree course on the basis of the HNC/HND will normally need to take two further academic years of full-time study for a Degree and three further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) . |
| 12 | These will be called Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( SVQs ) , will encompass the competences identified by Industry Lead Bodies and will be designed to be compatible with NVQs awarded in the rest of the UK . |
| 13 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 14 | Many modern machines are not fitted with a nose release hook for aerotowing , but with one designed to be suitable for both wire and aerotow launches . |
| 15 | The B-2 " Stealth " bomber , which was designed to be invisible to enemy radar , and which had made its maiden flight on July 17 , 1989 [ see p. 36808 ] , continued to arouse controversy during this period , due to its increasing cost ( estimated in February 1990 at $530,000,000 per aircraft ) , and to technical problems . |
| 16 | They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ . |
| 17 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
| 18 | It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference . |
| 19 | The banking document and estate agent 's document were both designed to be readable by lay people , and hence used language structures that could be immediately understood . |
| 20 | The elegant slimline desktop case has been designed to be pleasing to the eye , and overall the machine seems to be well finished off . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Teachers should not seek to be involved in every aspect of the school — administrative/clerical , catering and many aspects of the pastoral function should be contracted out to specialist providers . |
| 24 | At no time , either , did Zacco either seek to be alone with him , or utter a word of reproach about his failure with Famagusta . |
| 25 | One way to overcome difficulties with lack of confidence is to try to be honest about how you feel . |
| 26 | I decided to try to be open for once in my life . |
| 27 | It is important to try to be clear about what exactly this force was and the nature of the challenge that it posed to British rule in India — for there was a profound difference between Gandhi 's perception of these things and that of the British . |
| 28 | I want to try to be kind to the hon. Member for Gordon because he is out of his depth . |
| 29 | I want to ride as much as I can , but I want to try to be sensible at the same time . |
| 30 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |