Example sentences of "designed [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trains were designed to accommodate patients in the central vehicles , those at either end were for the convenience of the staff , stores , etc. , and in the military trains , the ward or hospital cars had a pharmacy car in the centre . |
| 2 | The Council , a quasi-legislative body drawn from various social and economic groups , was designed to supervise actions of the interim government and possessed the theoretical right to veto government measures . |
| 3 | The transfer project , conducted between 1953 and 1955 , was designed to establish settlements on the barren islands in order to assist Canadian claims to sovereignty over the region . |
| 4 | Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key . |
| 5 | The chirrups of the crickets are calling songs , designed to attract females of the same species as the calling male . |
| 6 | Their newspapers existed solely to point this out , and were designed to lead readers to the inescapable conclusion that what was needed was a new political party , free from the sell-outs of the Labour Party and the trade-union leaders . |
| 7 | This new series of graded readers had been designed to help students in the early stages of language learning to extend their learning beyond the classroom and to discover the enjoyment of reading in English . |
| 8 | Until recent changes in the structure of the civil service , designed to reduce barriers between the various grades and to stress the importance of many of the managerial roles played in connection with policy implementation , it was possible to draw a fairly clear distinction between the ‘ administrative class ’ , containing the ‘ higher ’ civil servants responsible for policy , and the rest of the civil service . |
| 9 | It is designed to lift students over the notorious ‘ intermediate plateau ’ where they so often have the feeling that they are learning more slowly , and that English has become a much more complex language ! |
| 10 | Few dispute that the health of children is primarily the responsibility of the parents , and much intervention is designed to educate parents in the physical care of their children . |
| 11 | There were projects in rural areas too , such as the Arnhem-Elst-Nijmegen route , which were designed to improve conditions for the large volume of cyclists who cycle to school or work in neighbouring villages and towns . |
| 12 | Despite a general rise in attendances , several clubs were on the verge of bankruptcy and limped from one financial problem to another playing in front of miniscule crowds often in grounds designed to suit manic-depressives from the dark ages . |
| 13 | The 5–14 proposals , which are designed to prepare children for the Standard Grade and Revised Highers syllabi currently in place throughout mainstream Scottish Education , will form the basis of Scottish Primary Education for the rest of this century and beyond . |
| 14 | The Edinburgh curriculum covers similar ground , providing intensive language and cultural courses relating to one of the community countries , plus a range of core subjects designed to introduce students to the common denominators of European experience , Philosophical Tradition , History , Politics , Institutions and Legal Framework . |
| 15 | All students will follow a core course on Theory and Methods of Literary Study which extends over two terms and is designed to familiarise students with the major theoretical and practical approaches to the study of literature . |