Example sentences of "[was/were] designed [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norman Leys , a doctor critical of white settlement in Kenya , noted that the branch lines there were designed to support white areas , particularly the vast estates of Kenyan settlers like Lord Delamere and E. S. Grogan . |
| 2 | The reforms , which were discussed at a two-day conference in Brisbane , were designed to eliminate regional differences in regulations and services . |
| 3 | Meditative techniques were designed to eliminate this struggle , to overcome the duality and to promote a more balanced mental condition . |
| 4 | The adverts were designed to generate some sales leads as well as the main aim of raising awareness and these will be handled by . |
| 5 | His remarks were designed to ease current tensions between him and union chiefs which have been triggered by his determination to press ahead with his plans for party voting reforms . |
| 6 | Ashrawi said that the proposals were designed to perpetuate Israeli settlements and to foster apartheid . |
| 7 | Many years ago scientists tried to develop machines that produced speech from a vocabulary of pre-recorded words ; the machines were designed to join these words together to form sentences . |
| 8 | The measures were designed to promote greater efficiency , reverse agricultural stagnation and help Mexico compete in readiness for the free trade agreement which was under negotiation with the United States and Canada . |
| 9 | Although Belfast has a much smaller and less socially and ethnically heterogeneous population than Philadelphia , the community studies resembled Labov 's neighbourhood studies in that they were designed to give broad coverage of major geographical , status and ethnic divisions in the city . |
| 10 | The budget contained details of an array of tax changes — outlined in the State of the Union speech [ see above ] — which were designed to stimulate economic growth . |
| 11 | Initially , these cribs were designed to instruct new rulers or new ruling classes . |
| 12 | His limekilns were designed to resemble medieval fortresses . |
| 13 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 14 | Grampian Police say they are satisfied there is a link among all four incidents and that they were designed to cause maximum disruption . |
| 15 | They were designed to allow some comparison of the films in terms of the type and amount of information actually present . |
| 16 | Bill said : ‘ The open nights were designed to answer any questions that women might have had about firefighting . |
| 17 | These seven pieces of work were designed to enable across-class comparison and analysis , but over fifty other topic-related activities involving art work , mathematics , science , music , environmental studies and various kinds of research were also suggested in order to give each class and its teacher a measure of autonomy over the way their work progressed . |
| 18 | Many provisions of the Sale of Goods Act were designed to remedy such deficiencies in the contract . |
| 19 | In an important sense the factual survey and the attitude survey were designed to achieve practical objectives rather than serve disinterested theoretically inspired research . |
| 20 | The next chapter describes the aims of the scheme and how both the action project and the research were designed to achieve these aims . |
| 21 | Here they were designed to offer practical advice and examples on the theme of ‘ alternative ’ and ‘ exploratory ’ forms of reporting . |
| 22 | These drew heavily on psychosocial theories to explain adolescent health behaviour ( particularly social learning theory ) and were designed to help young people to develop the personal skills needed to resist social pressures to smoke . |
| 23 | These were designed to ensure free competition within the EC , with the European Commission being charged with the responsibility for applying the legislation . |
| 24 | He knew that planes were designed to withstand violent airwaves , that the real danger came when they were close to the ground . |
| 25 | To allow for this degree of participation by wives the buildings were designed to make manual work easy or unnecessary . |
| 26 | Also while the L-Series boards were designed to provide two Mbus and four SBus connections , when using the SS2 chassis , the height restriction does n't allow for the second bank of Mbus and SBus slots . |
| 27 | Also while L-Series boards were designed to provide two Mbus and four SBus connections , when using the SS2 chassis , the height restriction does n't allow for the second bank of Mbus and SBus slots . |
| 28 | A series of peripheral boulevards was begun , though not finished before 1870 , which were designed to provide easy access to the central area at the desired point of entry . |
| 29 | Vanguard was stronger than the DUP in urban working-class areas and , as the pacts were designed to maximize loyalist votes by giving the strongest party in any area a clear run , this would have reduced the number of DUP people standing in urban areas . |
| 30 | The reports we commissioned on group discussions and depth interviews with people who might have been particularly vulnerable to the risk of serious credit problems ( Appendix II ) , and on the experience of clients of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) , were designed to throw some light on such problems . |