Example sentences of "designed [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern times churches and theatres were the only buildings which were designed to cope with crowds , and they offered no real clues to the scale of the problem now facing station architects . |
| 2 | Countries where educational difficulties over the last decade have been caused mainly by economic problems related to the burden of debt service and the effects of stabilization and adjustment policies designed to cope with them . |
| 3 | Severe degradation and melting of the reactor 's core was regarded as something that was virtually impossible given that the plant was designed to cope with something as extreme as a guillotine break in a main coolant pipe . |
| 4 | Overheating degrades battery electrolyte , and rechargeable types are designed to cope with this to a large extent , but dry cells are not . |
| 5 | Since 1601 there had been a system of parochial poor relief designed to cope with a small residue of the aged and unfortunate , financed by occasional and relatively infrequent rates on the principal landowners , and given sometimes in cash , frequently in kind . |
| 6 | Special paints are designed to cope with conditions that ordinary paints will not withstand , or to provide a surface that satisfies a certain need , eg fire retarding or damp-proofing . |
| 7 | They are designed to cope with the fact that judicial review actions often raise complex issues of public policy administrative practice which go well beyond the interests of the parties to the judicial review application and of the applicant in particular . |
| 8 | Kohl was forced to scrap a proposed tax reform ( affecting interest payments ) due to the popular outcry against it , and also reversed a decision to extend the length of conscription to 18 months , which was designed to cope with the falling population . |
| 9 | Because most submersible pumps are not designed to cope with solids . |
| 10 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 11 | The headsail wardrobe currently consists of a non-overlapping working jib set on a furler , originally designed to cope with wind speeds between 10 and 35 knots plus . |
| 12 | To be truly effective a system needs to be designed to cope with a wide range of inputs . |
| 13 | Luminescence chambers are designed to cope with this and are tested up to specified voltages with metal targets as samples . |
| 14 | They 're not designed to cope with cobbled streets . ’ |
| 15 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 16 | Thanks to the air-conditioning in the bedroom , she was at last feeling slightly cooler , but clearly none of her clothes — designed to cope with the vagaries of the English weather — were at all suitable for the steamy heat of New York . |
| 17 | Damman , Saudi Arabia : Both International Paint Saudi Arabia and International Paint ( Gulf ) have taken delivery of high specification Hyster forklift trucks designed to cope with difficult environments . |
| 18 | To allow pupils to start at an earlier age , teaching will start in P6 , though our system is designed to cope with entrants at P7 and S1 as well . |
| 19 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 20 | Interestingly , these sounds are designed to flow over the patch changes so , while patch selection is already hardly noticeable , this extra feature masks the change very well indeed . |
| 21 | Hip Belt : A padded and shaped belt designed to sit on the hips and take the load from the shoulders . |
| 22 | Designed to sit on a table or beside your bed , it contains a pad impregnated with natural oils that are warmed and released into the air ; three heat settings control the rate of vaporisation . |
| 23 | Future developments such as portable fax systems designed to sit in the boot ofa car along with the paraphernalia of the mobile phone are imminent , although wide acceptance is by no means certain-line noise , which can impair reproduction quality on conventional systems , is likely to pose a problem . |
| 24 | Several sessions of sports talks , designed to agree upon the formation of a single Korean team for the 1990 Asian Games [ see pp. 36975 ; 37041 ] , were equally unsuccessful and finally broke down on Jan. 29 after the North Korean delegation arrived with a three-metre long picture of the concrete wall to whose alleged existence Kim had referred . |
| 25 | She shot him a look designed to kill at fifty feet , but he only raised one eyebrow in mute enquiry . |
| 26 | Entropy measures the expected surprise of a situation , and all these algorithms are designed to search for explanations which make the world appear more coherent and less surprising . |
| 27 | Most European private placements belong to one of two categories : securities designed to appeal to a small group of investors , and those tailored to suit a particular issuer . |
| 28 | The Manuel d'artillerie was a technical work of more than average competence , a 500-page closely-reasoned and well-documented study designed to appeal to professionals . |
| 29 | You would think , therefore , that it would pay agencies to study assiduously not only the editorial content of the pages which are designed to appeal to their potential customers , but also the verbal and visual techniques employed to attract and keep them . |
| 30 | FIRST Option Bonds are designed to appeal to basic rate taxpayers , and the minimum investment is a lump sum of £1,000 . |