Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 !
6 The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance .
7 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 .
8 Both UA1 and UA2 were designed to be capable of detecting W and Z particles .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ .
15 General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work .
16 It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference .
17 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 .
18 The elegant slimline desktop case has been designed to be pleasing to the eye , and overall the machine seems to be well finished off .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 US companies are expected to be involved in the research , backed by £65 million of EC money .
22 The World Bank is expected to be involved in arranging finance for the study and for modernisation .
23 The crew is expected to be involved in networking technologies and other system software stuff .
24 The electorate was expected to be weary of elections and possibly apathetic as well .
25 Lisa had expected to be impressed by Vass 's seaside abode .
26 Why are we expected to be stunned into admiration each day by the media , which invites us to ponder the fortune and greatness of those who are the most voracious consumers of the precious treasures of the earth ?
27 If these strands were antiparallel spin diffusion crosspeaks would be expected to be visible between G2H1 and G5H8 , and vice versa. 5122K data sets were acquired using time proportional phase incrementation ( ref. 31 ) in phase-sensitive mode , with a sweep width of 7,812.5Hz .
28 The numbers of the skeletal elements are usually expressed as proportions of the numbers that would be expected to be present for a given number of prey individuals , which is usually the minimum number of individuals ( MNI ) .
29 Government backbenchers are expected to be present at all stages and though they are entitled to speak for half the time available on the floor of the House , in committee they are expected neither to speak nor to move amendments but simply to keep voting for the government 's proposals .
30 However , certain features can be expected to be present in any viable theory .
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