Example sentences of "designed [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I adopted a pose of cynicism — armour designed to protect me from ever feeling vulnerable again . ’ |
| 2 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 3 | This is the outer layer of the tent designed to protect you from the elements , usually wind and rain , but it could also be from heat . |
| 4 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 5 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 6 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 7 | Instead it is an elaboration of the task , designed to subtract it from the category of ‘ work ’ and add it to the creative pleasure dimension . |