Example sentences of "[is] designed [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's designed to prevent secondary tumours from developing . |
| 2 | The Toshiba radar rainfall monitoring system is designed to alert local governments to unexpectedly heavy rainfall , so it gives plenty of advance warning for extra drainage and emergency pumps . |
| 3 | EC environment ministers recently supported the commission 's proposed tax , which is designed to persuade energy-intensive sectors such as the chemical industry to curb emissions of carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | The junior squad , with convincing wins against Peterborough , Ipswich and Manchester behind them , face Maidstone in the semi-finals of the Dex-o-Tex Cup Coaching for kids FOOTBALL : A Teesside-based coaching organisation Total Futball is holding coaching weeks at various locations in the North of England during school holidays from July to August Boys and girls from six to 16 will be invited to take part and the course will be directed by Football Association coach Mark Donnelly The course is designed to improve individual skills and techniques and detailed brochures can be obtained from Donnelly ( 0642–343430 ) |
| 5 | Since the charter mark is designed to improve public services , does my hon. Friend agree that the attack launched today on the citizens charter by the National and Local Government Officers Association in a lavish newspaper advertising campaign is typical of that union 's contempt for the consumer and lack of interest in improving public services ? |
| 6 | A start has been made on a study of the Iapetus Convergence Zone , which is designed to complement local investigations in the Southern Uplands and northern England , and to provide the regional setting for them . |
| 7 | Access to the deck is designed to allow light vehicles to be driven aboard . |
| 8 | They take two main forms , each of which is designed to promote different goals : income tax relief for mortgage payments designed to promote house ownership , with the result that the higher the mortgage and the higher the salary , the greater the income tax relief received as well . |
| 9 | It is designed to suit general managers in all organisations who are involved in achieving corporate strategy by managing through projects . |
| 10 | Its strategy is designed to minimise allied deaths at all costs . |
| 11 | The principles that we want are no discrimination , a closer approach to the market , consideration of more environmental matters at the centre of the European Community and a sensible CAP that is designed to support efficient farmers and the proper backing of the rural economy . |
| 12 | The toolkit , developed in conjunction with Steria SA , Parsytec GmbH and other European research institutes , is designed to parallelise Fortran-based applications for multiple instruction multiple data ( MIMD ) architectures . |
| 13 | The Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme is designed to give young golfers an incentive to improve their technique and also make them more knowledgeable about the Rules and Etiquette . |
| 14 | The software , which was first introduced as long as 12 years ago for mainframe environments , is designed to enable multiple users to search and retrieve specific documents , on the basis of their content , rather than on indexed component labels . |
| 15 | Industrial policy is designed to offset other sources of market failure which arise in the production process . |
| 16 | The deal , announced by Mr Major in the Commons last week , is designed to answer Labour accusations that his six-month EC presidency has done nothing for jobs . |
| 17 | A PRODUCT of space programme technology , which had to find a way to recycle astronauts ' air , this ‘ circle absorber ’ is designed to recycle expensive gases exhaled from patient , thus saving money and cutting down on pollution . |
| 18 | The memorandum is designed to guide social workers , police and children through the difficult stage between local authority child protection and care systems and the criminal justice system and court process . |
| 19 | SunLink Point-to-Point Protocol is designed to let small companies do away with dedicated routers when linking their local area networks . |
| 20 | It is possible to record a search which is designed to emphasize particular features of an information system , or a particular database . |
| 21 | This is designed to show month-to-month changes in average prices of goods and services purchased by households . |
| 22 | Navigation server is designed to handle massive amounts of data and users , but is still totally scalable from very small machines . |
| 23 | There should be no need to run more than one main process , since LIFESPAN is designed to handle enormous projects with very little impact on speed of response , and you can apply whatever security controls you need within one process . |
| 24 | The review is designed to identify substantive points rather than minor drafting matters and it is essential that it is carried out in sufficient time to enable any major issues to be dealt with . |
| 25 | Superficially , Mr Akhtar 's compromise has appeal in a liberal/secular society because it is designed to protect human sensitivities which we all recognise , rather than to appease a deity in whom relatively few believe . |
| 26 | This is designed to evoke chilling reminders of men , women , and children huddled in ghastly expectation ; dying in pogroms and concentration camps . |
| 27 | That approach is altogether different from that in Britain , where the project is designed to advise local authorities on how to deal with an accident problem . |
| 28 | It is designed to provide advanced students with all the grammatical and semantic information they are likely to need . |
| 29 | This system is designed to provide local authorities with opportunities to satisfy themselves that the planned disposal will be satisfactory , but with the delays to industrial operations kept to a reasonable minimum . |
| 30 | This project is designed to provide analytical indexes ( computerised and manual ) to a series of account books and other estate and administrative papers ( c.1560-1630 ) amassed by Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey which are rare , if not unique , by virtue of their quality and extent . |