Example sentences of "design [to-vb] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America the political conventions are designed to enthuse the participants and television viewers to go out and campaign for their candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency . |
| 2 | Foucault adopts a strategy , obviously indebted to Bachelard , designed to restore the otherness that History by definition must disallow : he produces an account of epistemic shifts , with prior epistemes presented as altogether estranged from the present . |
| 3 | Is all his talk about films designed to promote the industry or David Puttnam ? |
| 4 | In January 1961 , he presented to Congress a batch of measures designed to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment ( then running at almost 7% of the workforce ) . |
| 5 | ScriptX is described as a fully-functional object-oriented scripting language and set of data specifications designed to enable the development and playback of a single multimedia title on a variety of personal computers and workstations , personal digital assistants and consumer electronics products . |
| 6 | ScriptX is described as a fully-functional object-oriented scripting language and set of data specifications designed to enable the development and playback of a single multimedia title on a variety of personal computers and workstations , personal digital assistants and consumer electronics products . |
| 7 | This study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of oral fluticasone propionate with prednisolone over a four week period in the treatment of active colitis . |
| 8 | Unlike chlorination , which is designed to treat the water and make it safe to drink , fluoridation is meant to influence a human physiological process — the mineralisation of tooth enamel . |
| 9 | All the products in the range contain pure , Essential Oils and their cleansing and soothing properties are designed to treat the scalp as well as the hair . |
| 10 | in his lordship 's opinion it was designed to provide the thrill and enjoyment of waterskiing without the constraint of boat and towrope. as such it was not a vessel used in navigation and therefore not subject to the marine conventions act 1911 which imposed a 2 year limitation period as opposed to a 3 year limitation period . |
| 11 | Weeping and sobbing are natural and appropriate responses to grief and our body is designed to provide the capacity and to use it creatively . |
| 12 | It 's part of the school 's Chinese cookery awareness course — craft-based and designed to meet the City & Guilds ' new ethnic element . |
| 13 | Therefore , the EC has sought to develop a policy designed to secure the benefits that arise from a competitive market , since as national barriers to inter-state competition are removed there is a danger that these can be replaced by privately erected barriers . |
| 14 | The rise in spending , according to the Deputy Prime Minister for Financial and Economic Affairs , Qais Abdel-Moneim al-Zawawi , was designed to activate the economy and to encourage trade . |
| 15 | A Two-in-one cleansing and conditioning products are specially designed to clean the hair and condition the outer layers ( the cuticle scales ) . |
| 16 | An ornamental wall topped with trellis was designed to screen the shed and coal-bunkers and to add colour to a previously stark corner , here , Japanese acers , impatiens and clematis form an interesting mix . |
| 17 | Computing systems have been designed to explore the structure and influence of human beliefs , prejudices and emotions . |
| 18 | Politicians in all countries would accept the proposition that the system should be designed to serve the people but whatever the political philosophy behind the system , the people always seem to be more its servants than its masters . |
| 19 | UDCs are designed to create the conditions and confidence necessary to attract private capital . |
| 20 | Most of the index-linked stocks that have been issued have annual coupon payments of 2 or 2 ½ per cent ; this is designed to reflect the fact that the long-run real rate of return on the UK capital stock is about 2 ½ per cent . |
| 21 | The project director , Marilyn Standley , commented : ‘ The building is being designed to reflect the personality and concerns of the company and its staff , and we are delighted at having been awarded such a high environmental score . ’ |
| 22 | In fact , Lee ( 1966 , 1974 ) suggests two related strategies ; one referred to as Developmental Sentence Types ( DST ) is designed to help the teacher or therapist classify pre-sentence utterances , while Developmental Sentence Scoring ( DSS ) is a method of quantifying the ‘ grammatical load ’ which is carried by complete sentences . |
| 23 | Perhaps also the time has come to abandon content free systems and move towards the development of a knowledge-based program , using grid method but specifically designed to enhance the perception and appreciation of art . |
| 24 | EVERYTHING WE MAKE IS DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND THE STRESS AND STRAIN OF REAL PHYSICAL EXERTION . |
| 25 | Some poetic complaints survive on the concealing nature of this dress , designed to cover the tunic but to be worn beneath a cloak . |
| 26 | Since they accept that some types of nuclear weapons can be used in this way , the argument is designed to legitimise the development and deployment of tactical or ‘ counterforce ’ nuclear weapons and other weaponry associated with a shift away from Mutual Assured Destruction towards Nuclear Utilisation Target Selection ( MAD versus NUTS : see Keeny and Panofsky , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Use one of the proprietary woodworm injectors for this , as their special nozzles are designed to fit the holes and you are less likely to risk an eyeful of the fluid . |
| 28 | The new communion ceremony was designed to dispel the belief that each individual mass was a re-enactment of Christ 's sacrifice , or that the bread and wine were physically changed as a result of their consecration by a priest . |
| 29 | Empiricist theories of knowledge , for example , are presented as a legitimating ideology for individualist social theories which in turn are part of a bourgeois outlook , and are said to pose questions designed to justify the individual as knower and as agent . |
| 30 | During the one-day visit Laos informed the USA of its subsidiary crop promotion programme and the construction of a communication structure , both designed to curtail the cultivation and refining of opium-based drugs . |