Example sentences of "are [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The simplicity and flexibility of the notation of DC are recognized to be two of its strengths . |
2 | Managers , he notes , are taught to be tough , which can mean they sometimes take a decision regardless of its ethical consequences . |
3 | These ‘ developmental sequences ’ are intended to be hierarchical : ‘ each sequence of steps in different domains of development progresses towards and overlaps with National Curriculum Attainment Targets ’ ( Webster and Webster 1990 : 9 ) . |
4 | These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss . |
5 | These principles are intended to be good practices that data users should comply with in order to protect the data they hold , in both their interests and those of their data subjects . |
6 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
7 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
8 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
9 | Legal aid is not generally available for tribunals , they are intended to be cheap and both sides are clearly expected to bear their own costs . |
10 | Associations with bells or illuminated disks are rather artificial , but they are intended to be experimental versions of things that would be important in nature . |
11 | The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable . |
12 | Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | Bernstock & Speirs ' hats are designed to be easy to wear . |
15 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
16 | The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Many modern mains transformers are designed to be versatile , but this versatility can ( and does ) cause a certain amount of confusion . |
19 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ . |
24 | All questions , as illustrated by the three quoted here , are designed to be brief ; Labov notes that questions formulated without preparation can often be lengthy and unclear , containing spontaneous conversation phenomena such as hesitations and false starts . |
25 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
26 | The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard . |
27 | They are designed to be quick to prepare and even quicker to eat and as a result are highly desirable to anyone who has a busy lifestyle . |
28 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
29 | The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor . |
30 | New immunosuppressive agents have been used recently and are claimed to be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease . |