Example sentences of "designed [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nursery schools , however , were generally supported because they were designed only to promote the health and education of children ; their limited opening hours did not permit mothers to work . |
| 2 | Additionally the workload in any patient area is distributed unevenly throughout the day and in any case the patient 's day should not be designed only to suit the availability of the staff . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the company management said later : ‘ Management at the Timex plant in Dundee deplores the activities of protesters outside its plant , tactics which are designed only to intimidate the workers who are coming into the plant . ’ |
| 4 | While the middle single coil on the EG-2 is of regular design , the single coils on the EG-1 are designed especially to keep the noise down , and presumably also to emulate Gibson 's P-90 in picking up more of the vibrating string , thanks to some added width . |
| 5 | The borders vary in width , and are designed specially to create the main impact in the room . |
| 6 | Our project was designed deliberately to follow the pattern of ethnographic studies of routine policing , so as to add to this tradition the dimension provided by studying this kind of policing in a divided society . |
| 7 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 8 | Stating that the criteria for evaluating of public enterprises had been " designed more to ensure the success of the [ privatization ] operation rather than its profitability " , the commission claimed that state companies had been deliberately undervalued by between F8,300 million and F19,600 million . |
| 9 | On the second anniversary of his coming to office President Patricio Aylwin Azócar presented to the Congress on March 11 a package of constitutional reforms designed further to distance the government from the previous military regime . |
| 10 | The studies are designed partly to test the validity of information gathered by the current Warwick Industrial Relations Unit survey of company industrial relations policies at one organisational level . |
| 11 | These were designed partly to ensure the survival of a minimum level of service provision in rural areas , and , in the face of the continued decline of rural services , such a policy may have been necessary m some locations . |
| 12 | This was designed both to decentralise the delivery of services through mini-town halls , and to generate local plans which would feed into an overall local authority or corporate plan spanning a four-year period . |
| 13 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 14 | It is a bucket-shaped attachment that deploys when a plane lands ; it is designed solely to stop the plane flying . |
| 15 | They fear that they are now looking at a successor tax which is designed simply to allow the Government to muddle through to the next election . |
| 16 | We add the commentary at the very last minute and it is designed simply to strengthen the picture-story , not to add to it . |
| 17 | The curriculum already exists and is external and objective to both teacher and pupil , and their interaction is designed simply to bring the learner to that state of knowledge at which the teacher has already arrived . |
| 18 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 19 | A cultural mausoleum such as the Tate — our primary state museum of recent and contemporary art — cheerfully displays many works that were designed precisely to evade the museum . |
| 20 | It is clear that such forms are designed primarily to protect the hospital from legal action . |
| 21 | Most of these services were designed primarily to help the physically disabled , especially those who had been in work but who were unable to continue as a result of a crippling accident or disease . |
| 22 | In South Africa under apartheid , education has been designed specifically to socialize the mass of the population into accepting an inferiority based on race and class . |
| 23 | It is among a small number of churches designed specifically to accommodate the liturgical changes which followed from the Second Vatican Council . |
| 24 | Johannesburg station was designed specifically to separate the races as the full-blown policies of apartheid were developed by the Nationalist government in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 25 | In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying . |