Example sentences of "design [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case , the reforms were hedged in with clauses designed to preserve leeway for the authorities . |
| 2 | She would have to pass through the parlour to reach the kitchen , an arrangement which had shocked the pampered girl she had been , but it was obviously designed to conserve space in the small house . |
| 3 | Each unit in Streetwise is presented as an issue of a teenage magazine , introduced by a cover designed to stimulate speculation about the issue 's contents . |
| 4 | The interview technique has been designed to stimulate discussion of the topic in question with as little prompting as possible , again justifying the phrase which was used in the title of the report of the previous project : ‘ Transport decision-makers speak ’ . |
| 5 | Beginning with relatively peaceful " teach-ins " at which the issues raised by the war were debated , the movement grew , using marches , rallies and sit-ins , designed to disrupt recruitment for the armed services . |
| 6 | The chartered jet was carrying 248 US servicemen home for Christmas to Fort Campbell , Kentucky , from their stations in the Sinai desert , where they formed part of the Multinational Force and Observers designed to monitor implementation of the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel . |
| 7 | Sample surveys , carried out in collaboration with research partners in each country , are designed to gather information on the principal structural features of the new forms of business organisation . |
| 8 | This study is designed to gather information on the attitudes of Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords on the main principles which should underline welfare policy . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the evaluation strategies are designed to provide evidence of the effectiveness of various components of diagrams as conveyors of biological ideas to blind students . |
| 10 | The accounts are largely designed to provide information about the returns achieved on that risk investment . |
| 11 | Once a problem has been identified , automatic procedures can be designed to provide information on the extent of the problem . |
| 12 | The American Pressurized Water Reactor ( PWR ) , still the type most commonly in use in the United States , has a relatively compact core because it was originally designed to provide power inside the hulls of submarines . |
| 13 | This drill is one of a series of exercises designed to increase flexibility in the shoulders . |
| 14 | The first of a generation of satellites designed to increase knowledge of the environment , oceans and climate has been launched from French Guiana in South America . |
| 15 | Hence they will not substitute their views as to the proper management of a company but they are prepared to articulate standards of review which are designed to catch self-dealing on the part of managers . |
| 16 | Ceiling-mounted fans are usually designed to extract air into the loft space or a similar ventilated void , rather than direct to the outside . |
| 17 | The lexical analyser ( which includes morphological processing ) has been designed to accept input in the form of a character lattice ( see Appendix C ) , so this can work with any recogniser that produces output in this format . |
| 18 | In May 1990 Cape Verde joined the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) in a move designed to encourage investment from the estimated 600,000 expatriate Cape Verdeans living for the most part in the USA and Europe . |
| 19 | The plan , designed to arrest degradation of the environment , included measures to protect specific wildlife sites , as well as steps to slow soil erosion and sedimentation of reservoirs . |
| 20 | Although designed to counter support for the FN [ see Villeurbanne cantonal election above ] , the agreement was criticized by Léotard , who claimed that the FN would still have the upper hand since the new UPF lacked credibility . |
| 21 | It has been a point frequently made that the characters exposed to ridicule are never given attributes that can have been designed to evoke sympathy from the reader ; frequently quite the contrary . |
| 22 | The thinking programme which I developed ( the CoRT programme ) which is now the most widely used in the world for teaching thinking is designed to avoid confusion through the use of specific attention tools . |
| 23 | He followed his re-election with a Cabinet reshuffle designed to strengthen support within the government for his market-oriented economic reforms . |
| 24 | The ANC rejected the plans as being specifically designed to deny power to the black majority . |
| 25 | Designed to give practice in the main functional patterns used in writing the most common forms of business letters . |
| 26 | As a result , the 1974 Housing Act introduced Housing Action Areas ( HAAs ) , designed to give priority to the improvement of areas for which GIAs are not relevant , where poor physical condition of housing is combined with social stress and deprivation . |
| 27 | Given that revolutionary literature is designed to give pre-eminence to the construction of a new culture , a new man , a new reading public , drawn primarily from the working class , there arises an obvious clash of interests between the revolutionary writer and the bourgeois reading public . |
| 28 | Two-thirds of the Congress seats were filled by direct popular vote from 750 single-member constituencies organized to include roughly equal numbers of voters and another 750 constituencies designed to give representation to the majority of the Soviet Union 's recognized ethnic groups ; the remaining 750 seats were reserved for members of approved social organizations ( in future elections there will be no reserved seats ) . |
| 29 | A questionnaire designed to elicit information about the extent to which the relationship between the two sets of rules is perceived to give rise to problems in practice was circulated in November 1990 , and a Consultation Paper ( " the CP " ) setting out a full analysis of the present legal position , the issues and the options for the future was published in May 1992 . |
| 30 | For them , the main explanation of national policy — at least in its centralization phrase — was that it was designed to undermine resistance to the wider political strategies of the Conservative government . |