Example sentences of "be [adv] designed [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Our range of sleeping beauties have all been especially designed to meet the two highest standards there are : you and your child 's .
2 The new low aspect ratio keels have been specially designed to give the maximum lift to windward as well as allowing the boat to creep into shallow lagoons and creeks where she can dry out without any difficulty thus opening up previously unexplored regions throughout the world .
3 For Le Preziose , Buitoni have created four new shapes , which do more than just look beautiful on the plate , they are specially designed to hold the delicious and subtle sauces that you 'll find in our recipes .
4 These attractive , period-style apartments have been sympathetically designed to complement the existing residences on ‘ The Mile ’ , with careful consideration given to layout and architectural detail .
5 Until fairly recently , translations from Horace were not designed to serve the simple informative purpose of telling an inquisitive reader what Horace 's writing was like , what sort of thing might be found in his poems , and whether it might be worth learning a little Latin to find out more .
6 So long as the Algerian and Berlin crises were continuing , de Gaulle did not spell out the full implications of this threat , although his decisions , in 1959 , to withdraw the French Mediterranean fleet from NATO and to deny the US permission to base atomic weapons in France were clearly designed to reinforce the original message .
7 The conditions laid down were therefore designed to differentiate the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition , and to make it clear that the National Government was not intended , as the Lloyd George coalition had been , to lead to a permanent realignment of the party system .
8 Furthermore , Council is of the view that the proposed structure of single tier authorities is not designed to meet the long-term needs of local government but the short-term wishes of the Scottish Conservative Party .
9 At a time of unprecedented challenge in the political arena , many of Smith 's colleagues worry that his will-reading Morningside manner is hardly designed to energise the faithful , let alone excite the doubtful .
10 The antifeminist teaching of Repertoire de Science ( " the Body of Knowledge " ) in the Miroir de Mariage is similarly designed to turn the male character Franc Vouloir from contemplation of an earthly marriage to contemplation of a spiritual and divine one .
11 It is certainly designed to excuse the physical destruction of Iraq — an inevitable consequence of the type of war that the allies in the multi-national force have decided to fight .
12 Ranged around three sides of a large swimming pool in gardens of palm trees and tropical plants , these villas are brightly designed to make the most of their magnificent surroundings .
13 This present study was not designed to assess the biological significance of endotoxaemia , however , nor the treatment of colitis .
14 Employment Action was not designed to help the unemployed .
15 The pledge was perfectly designed to register the horrified rejection of war with which very large numbers of otherwise unpolitical people responded to the various war scares of the later 1930s .
16 A station featured as an important part of the design of Le Corbusier for the New Punjabi capital at Chandigarh , but there the station with its ramps , car-parks , and adjacent bus station was mainly designed to benefit the internal combustion engine .
17 Less flamboyant and more measured in person than in print , Budhoo speaks with disillusionment about the Fund : ‘ The IMF was never designed to help the Third World or end poverty .
18 The Mida plan was specifically designed to benefit the poor , and particularly the young .
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