Example sentences of "[noun] be designed [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such policies are designed to promote the efficient allocation of resources through the encouragement of competition , which is seen as the active progenitor of economic efficiency and welfare . |
| 2 | The activities are designed to exploit the motivating and memorable appeal of music to the learner and the author proves his point that ‘ anything you can do with a text , you can do with a song ’ . |
| 3 | It has made an environment assessment , and its proposals are designed to enhance the environmental interest of the area . |
| 4 | A large agrarian reform and related regional development programmes are designed to reincorporate the low income rural population as producers , consumers and participants in a more democratic social system . |
| 5 | Programmes are designed to meet the specific needs of organisations whether a senior management programme or a company MBA or Diploma . |
| 6 | The remedies are designed to influence the internal , inherited predisposition components . |
| 7 | The core units are designed to inculcate the special skills and knowledge that are indispensable to those seeking employment in the area covered by a particular Board . |
| 8 | The course units are designed to reflect the multidisciplinary basis of the course , and to encourage the integration of theoretical and practical aspects of a subject . |
| 9 | The hoist has a capacity of 50 tons for boats of FAB 3's dimensions and both it and the dock are designed to accommodate the largest lifeboats at present envisaged . |
| 10 | The research is designed to examine the deviant behaviour of young girls and women during the process of the transition from school into the labour market . |
| 11 | The research is designed to investigate the changing organisation of service sector employment nationally , the particular impact of its expansion in East Anglia , where rates of growth have been above the national average , and to establish the consequence of this growth for class and gender relations in the two local labour markets of Norwich and Ipswich . |
| 12 | Year II of the core subjects is designed to develop the first year taxonomy of skills at a problem-solving and decisional level and to provide an integrative view of the office environment . |
| 13 | The methodology is designed to enable the applied econometrician to make good use of economic data , and of the information provided by economic theory , while reducing the risk of drawing incorrect conclusions or making inaccurate forecasts , owing to invalid assumptions about aspects of behaviour on which there is little or no information . |
| 14 | The Brigade was designed to assist the civilian commission to coax people to surrender weapons , possibly in return for money payments . |
| 15 | An extensive training programme was designed to put the new techniques into practice . |
| 16 | OUR PROGRAMME WAS DESIGNED TO GET THE BEST FOR BRITAIN , TO BRING BRITAIN 'S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE , OUR PENSIONS , PROVISION FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN , ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND LEVELS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UP TO THE BEST THAT EXISTS IN EUROPE . |
| 17 | The original research was designed to investigate the subsequent labour-market behaviour of a sample of steelworkers made redundant from the British Steel Corporation , Port Talbot , South Wales , and to relate this behaviour to the type of domestic organisation of their households and the character of their local social networks . |
| 18 | According to one senior civil servant , Otto Clarke , PES was designed to achieve the effective collective responsibility of ministers for public expenditure , regular ministerial appraisal of public expenditure for five years ahead , and increased stability of public expenditure ( see Hennessy , 1989a , p. 179 ) . |
| 19 | The study was designed to determine the gastroprotective and ulcer healing efficacy of basic transforming growth factor ( bFGF ) and to assess whether this peptide contributes to the action of sucralfate on the rat stomach . |
| 20 | Uncertainty occurs where the court is not sure whether the statute was designed to cover the factual situation which is before it for decision . |
| 21 | His long sinuous phrases are designed to enclose the different levels and quirks of reality , just as liquid , spilt on a rough pavement , eventually seeps into every crack and cranny . |
| 22 | VERs are designed to protect the domestic car industry , but critics argue that consumers suffer , as some are prevented from buying the car of their choice , and that the prices of Japanese cars are higher than they would otherwise have been , thus raising Japanese profit margins ( ie profit per car sold ) . |
| 23 | A more serious misconception is that the RMI is designed to provide the appropriate information for pricing . |
| 24 | The eight-phase plan is designed to ensure the 166-year-old zoo — the world 's oldest — against previously threatened closure . |
| 25 | The plan is designed to make the best use of these resources and to protect that best use into the future . |
| 26 | Although the bulk of Galileo 's scientific work was designed to strengthen the Copernican theory , Galileo did not himself devise a detailed astronomy , and seemed to follow the Aristotelians in their preference for circular orbits . |
| 27 | The long window of the upper storey was designed to throw the maximum light on the loom . |
| 28 | The pact was designed to allow the Reserve Bank of New Zealand ( central bank ) , which had anticipated wage rises of around 5 per cent ( the current rate of inflation ) , to relax its tight monetary policy and to reduce interest and mortgage rates accordingly . |
| 29 | Part III of the 1964 Act was designed to protect the innocent purchaser in this situation . |
| 30 | This Act was designed to reduce the general subsidy to council tenants ; it was linked to changes in the system of national subsidies to local authorities designed to phase out indiscriminate help of this kind in due course . |