Example sentences of "designed [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shot him a look designed to kill at fifty feet , but he only raised one eyebrow in mute enquiry . |
| 2 | Specifically , LIFESPAN is designed to avoid at least two fundamental problems : |
| 3 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 4 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 5 | The study has been designed to look at : the feasibility of extending CSAWS activities to the collection of other recyclable waste materials , such as glass , plastics , oil and metals ; potential sites for storage of such materials — sites being evaluated in terms of ease of access , cost , suitability for storage , planning permission , and the availability of funds to offset costs ; the number of jobs arising from the resultant expansion of activities ; the spin-off effect of recycling waste materials in terms of openings for small business ; and the likely savings on current disposal costs in industry . |
| 6 | This research proposal is designed to look at how this Inquiry fits into an evolutionary model of the development of the public inquiry as a democratic and political device for analysing information and ensuring that legal interests are safeguarded , what views the various participants have of the Inquiry before , during and after it occurs , and how the Inquiry as a process handles the arguments raised by its terms of reference , from the viewpoints of fairness , fullness , thoroughness and public legitimacy . |
| 7 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 8 | The first few weeks always included a number of experiences designed to undo at least some of the damage done to sensible language learning by our schools and universities . |
| 9 | The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary . |
| 10 | I understand the gearbox is designed to run at a temperature of 95°C , so would it not be prudent to use the heavier oil ? |
| 11 | The levy , which would be effective until June 30 , 1992 , was designed to raise at least 20,000 million pesos in additional revenue . |
| 12 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 13 | Usually , the m-derived section is designed to resonate at a frequency just outside the pass band of the prototype so that its strong resonant attenuation coincides with the range of weakest attenuation of the prototype . |
| 14 | The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information . |
| 15 | This chart is designed to show at a glance exactly how many rooms have been let and exactly how many rooms are still available to be let and their type . |
| 16 | The ESSE/L Project was designed to operate at two distinct levels of funding , Minor award schools receiving less than half the allocation offered to Major Project schools . |
| 17 | Apart from one another in Switzerland ( c/n 208 ) , it is the only cargo jet of its kind in the world , and is designed to operate at or below the noise emission standards established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 18 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |
| 19 | And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet . |
| 20 | This is a useful technique for systems designed to operate at the highest speeds , where the time taken for the initial current build.up exceeds the step period , so that chopping action does not have time to begin in an excited phase ( Acarnley , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | A more mundane application is to the reduction of interfering mains-frequency signals accidentally picked up in circuits designed to operate at even lower frequency , for example in direct-current circuits . |