Example sentences of "[adv] designed [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This item was expressly designed to replace generic man . |
| 2 | America has attacked the bit of the Bank expressly designed to promote private enterprise in the developing countries . |
| 3 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 4 | Apart from the assumed humanitarian philosophies of most US politicians and citizens , nothing is better designed to drive poor countries into the arms of the communists than shortages of food . |
| 5 | One criticism is that they are only designed to accept one uplift tube . |
| 6 | In separate declarations on Nov. 12 Serbia , Albania and Bulgaria expressed support for a Greek initiative to guarantee the existing borders of Macedonia , apparently designed to allay international concern about Greece 's intentions towards the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 7 | HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 8 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 9 | The product forms part of a complete system of surface removal , with tools and wood finishing products , all designed to give superior results ! |
| 10 | That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil . |
| 11 | They were constructed for human interpretation and they are thus designed to provide verbal explanations and translations of words , rather than the morphological , syntactic and semantic data required by NLP lexicons . |
| 12 | Often specific language associated with the eventual purpose has been identified and then activities devised which lead to no schematic extension , either because the specialist content is familiar or because the tasks are not designed to engage appropriate modes of thinking . |
| 13 | The crudity of the ‘ opinion research ’ of some SD agents was not designed to elicit critical comment . |
| 14 | If the state acts in a manner not designed to promote social solidarity then , Duguit argued , this must be resisted . |
| 15 | The first conclusion must be that this failure is not unexpected because social services were not designed to reduce such inequalities . |
| 16 | The scheme was not designed to provide widespread relief in a period of mass unemployment . |
| 17 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 18 | Our study was not designed to address these possibilities , but they deserve further investigation . |
| 19 | More advanced courses may include elements of document design , and a survey of available systems and technologies with a comparison of their capabilities , but they are still normally designed to teach specific skills and so may be considered as ‘ service ’ courses . |
| 20 | All rooms are individually designed to include private facilities and telephone ( no television ) . |
| 21 | Similarly , few word processing packages can accurately hyphenate and justify text that is proportionally spaced as they were only ever designed to handle monospaced characters . |
| 22 | They are usually designed to kill broadleaved weeds among grasses , but some also control grasses among broad-leaved plants ( useful if you have couchgrass in your rockery , for instance ) . |
| 23 | To maximise the friendliness of the systems , bespoke kiosks are usually designed offering large screen colour displays and touch screen or highly simplified keypad interfaces . |
| 24 | If successful the group will have a fleet of four vehicles specially designed to take disabled people around town , people who might otherwise be confined to their homes . |
| 25 | In the local press we read ever more frequently about another ‘ new ’ initiative to create jobs , or yet another new building , specially designed to house purpose-built work units . |
| 26 | The Classic Wallpaper Trimming Wheel by Harris is a nifty little gadget , specially designed to trim positioned wallpaper neatly and efficiently . |
| 27 | With the ability to style the award to each country 's particular needs , Nestlé Foodservice in the UK recognised the opportunity to establish a competition here specially designed to encourage high standards for catering students training to enter the industry . |
| 28 | 3 The Neckcare pillow has been specially designed to alleviate any cricks and tension on your neck at night . |
| 29 | The Nottinghamshire CMHTs were deliberately designed to meet this challenge head-on . |
| 30 | Eddie Murphy 's Boomerang is n't so much a comeback after recent failures as a career rethink , deliberately designed to show Fast Eddie easing up and losing the street hustle — coming on , in fact , like a black Cary Grant . |