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

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1 She had always hankered to be tall and fair , like Riborg .
2 More problematic for the school as a whole are those initiatives that are designed to be cross-curricular and pervasive : language across the curriculum , maths across the curriculum , computing across the curriculum .
3 On Sept. 12 ESA officials announced that its new Pegasus rocket , designed to be air-launched and to carry small satellites into orbit , would undergo its first flight test in the USA the following week .
4 Bright states in his introduction that the " audience is seen as academic and professional , but interdisciplinary ; thus articles are designed to be intelligible and useful to people in related disciplines " ( Vol.1 , p. ix ) .
5 It is surely reasonable that taxes should be designed to be easy and cheap to collect , difficult to avoid and should not be a discouragement to the enterprise and effort of those paying them .
6 Our approach is designed to be personal and responsive to our client 's needs .
7 Five 60 second television advertisements were designed to be shocking and fully realistic .
8 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 .
9 The matrix is designed to be flexible and adaptable so that it can readily be adjusted to respond to needs identified by users .
10 It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy .
11 The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol .
12 It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 .
13 The crime survey carried out in Islington , by contrast , is designed to be explanatory and to predict who is most at risk ( Jones , Maclean , and Young 1986 ) .
14 This is in contrast to the sociology of knowledge which was designed to be non-evaluative and not to distinguish between false and true knowledge .
15 Under these circumstances bood sizes would be expected to be low and behavioural traits to emphasize careful and effective rearing and foraging under difficult circumstances .
16 Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year .
17 They were expected to be decorative and subservient .
18 What is different about a vocational course is that you are also expected to be creative and to produce new ideas , novel applications and improved methods of doing things .
19 The effect of sanctions on the island 's weak economy , highly dependent on trade with the USA , was expected to be instantaneous and food and oil supplies were already reported to be nearly exhausted .
20 My objection was not to discussion of the subject , but to the refusal of those who might be expected to be clear and able spokesmen of the Church to commit themselves to a firm position on right and wrong .
21 Lewis had forgotten to be indifferent and aloof , he could n't help it .
22 The men are claimed to be dishonest and immoral .
23 Although the test is claimed to be culture-fair and the instructions were presented in BSL , performance was lower , giving weight to the view of Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) that deaf people are subject to a test effect which generally depresses scores .
24 If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness .
25 In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time .
26 Many are considered to be ineffective and contribute to the problems of disruptive and disaffected behaviour — but for unstructured and individualized reasons — an uncaring and insensitive teacher here , an inappropriate and irrelevant syllabus there .
27 Blues and greens , for example , are considered to be cool and restful ; yellow is thought of as sunny and gay ; while red , orange and tans are associated with warmth , as are peach and apricot .
28 Thereafter , children will be taught by parents , relations , friends and teachers what is expected of them , and what is considered to be appropriate and inappropriate behaviour .
29 The Hobbesian analogy is considered to be partial and gender-biased .
30 Road conditions in the county are generally considered to be inadequate and the construction of the remaining Maidstone-Ashford section of the M20 is programmed for completion in 1991 .
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