Example sentences of "designed [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of an interactive computer as an aid to teaching involves programs , each of which has an identifiable range of content or subject matter X , the program provides a preset repertoire of computer ‘ comments ’ and ‘ responses ’ from which the teacher can select particular elements using the driving system ; these are designed to promote transactions with the pupils and the teacher aims at moving towards ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 2 | From February , 1992 , the UK Department of Health sponsored the broadcast of television commercials designed to alert parents to the dangers of VSA . |
| 3 | The course is designed to provide members of the professions allied to medicine with the scientific skills , knowledge and their appliction to relevant clinical practice in their field in order to be better able to evaluate their effectiveness of their contributions to health care services . |
| 4 | So far this section has considered activity specifically designed to attract newcomers to the organisation . |
| 5 | The Scottish National Party 's vice-president , Andrew Welsh , challenged Mr Smith last night to spell out whether he intended to exempt Scotland from his ‘ neo-Tory policies ’ , which were designed to win votes in the south of England by taking his Scottish voters for granted . |
| 6 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
| 7 | The research identifies the areas in which they have survived in sufficient abundance to form the basis of a nationwide sample survey designed to illustrate changes in the level , composition and distribution of household wealth in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 8 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 9 | In a safety initiative designed to reduce accidents in the home , the Kitchen Specialists Association ( KSA ) has launched a new booklet — Greater Safety in the Kitchen — which highlights some of the more common causes of accidents in the home and offers advice on how to avoid mishaps in the first place . |
| 10 | Despite his words suggesting solidarity with the Third World , Ceauşescu 's initial actions as maker of Romania 's foreign policy were designed to build bridges to the West . |
| 11 | The reason for this lenient approach is that the court will not want to undermine the statutory regulations which are often designed to protect workmen from the consequences of their own carelessness . |
| 12 | A new X-ray astronomy satellite , X-80 , was designed to study variations in the intensity of X-ray sources and to investigate their spectra in detail . |
| 13 | They should be designed to add skills to the person taking the training even if some of those skills are broader than those actually required for the task . |
| 14 | Despite opposition from the Social Democrats ( SPD ) , a law designed to change aspects of the tax system was approved by the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) on Feb. 14 by 35 votes to 33 , after delegations from two Länder in which the SPD participated in government — Brandenburg and Berlin — were persuaded to vote in favour of the package . |
| 15 | Mr. Thornton argued first that the whole concept of Stardust Jewellers involved a deceit or trick by the police designed to deprive visitors to the shop of their protection or privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 16 | Firstly , there is the provision that ‘ DHAs will need to allow for referrals by GPs to hospitals with whom no contracts have been placed , keeping some funds in reserve for this purpose ’ ( DoH , 1989a , para.4.24 ) , which is designed to overcome objections to the loss of GP freedom resultant on the Type I system . |
| 17 | The shift times are designed to place policemen on the streets at times when they will encounter the maximum number of members of the public , even though this public thus tends to comprise shoppers and tradespeople . |
| 18 | The amendment was designed to close loopholes in the Act which enabled companies to reap huge profits from drugs which turned out to have wider than anticipated applications . |
| 19 | In fact , since social dialectology is an exploratory science , many important patterns of variation are adequately demonstrated by exploratory statistical techniques , which are designed to reveal patterns in the data rather than test for significance ( Tukey , 1977 ; Diaconis , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | The lectures are part of a larger programme , designed to bring members of the university and of the local community , to bring them together in serious consideration of great issues , great ideas and great people in the sciences , the humanities and the social sciences . |