Example sentences of "it [be] designed [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year .
2 It 's designed to bring knowledge of the real world around them .
3 It is designed to lift students over the notorious ‘ intermediate plateau ’ where they so often have the feeling that they are learning more slowly , and that English has become a much more complex language !
4 It is designed to facilitate development of multiprocessing and Iris GL applications .
5 It is designed to enable system administrators to identify and fix problems before they come to most users ' attention .
6 It is designed to give physicians faster access to results on new and re-examined medical treatments .
7 Apple Computer Inc 's Enterprise Systems Division will be launching its AppleSearch workgroup technology alongside the new servers : it is designed to give Macintosh users personalised , easy access to unstructured text , turning a collection of documents stored on a server into an on-line library — based on the contents of each document — which can be searched to find needed information quickly and easily ; the client-server AppleSearch is designed to deliver ad hoc access to information as well as proactive updates to its users on an immediate , daily or weekly basis ; documents to be searched are not altered by AppleSearch — they are stored in their native format and translated into searchable text by Apple 's XTND file conversion technology , which enables users to view text of documents without having the application that created them .
8 It is designed to serve individuals and groups involved in all aspects of communication , including research , production , publication and training .
9 It is designed to relieve rail congestion in central London by speeding cross-capital journeys .
10 It is designed to optimise weights in one layer of the perceptron at a time , and the procedure for optimising weights in one layer is controlled by properties of the layer above which is already partly optimised .
11 It is designed to examine credit policies and investment behaviour of banks in their relations to industrial enterprise in three industrially advanced European economies ( Austria , Hungary and Sweden ) in the interwar period .
12 A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning .
13 It is designed to help committee members involved in branch administration and development work .
14 It is designed to help participants identify challenges in their ministry and to equip them with the necessary insights and skills to meet these challenges .
15 It is designed to help diabetics when dealing with queries at airports or by the police or when they are taken ill .
16 It is designed to help people on low earnings .
17 It is designed to protect children and to ensure that care is taken in making appointments to any post which involves contact with children .
18 It is designed to provide encouragement and financial support to five outstanding young students considering a professional career in music .
19 It is designed to make Europe a place where movement from one country to the next is as easy as possible .
20 It was designed to invite visitors to step inside and explore buildings whose distinguished , colourful or unusual interior are rarely open to the public .
21 The objectives had also been changed ; now it was designed to take pressure off Verdun .
22 It was designed to persuade people not to come to Britain .
23 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 .
24 As the commission pointed out , despite the sophistication of the British planning system , it was designed to control land use rather than to promote the development of land .
25 It was designed to ensure non-discrimination among members and to control fish catches , and caused little controversy when it was begun in 1970 .
26 It was designed to rid Iran of the remaining elements of the invading force in these sectors ( some having withdrawn of their own accord ) and took the form of powerful punches to which distinctive names were generally given , evocative of important features of Islam 's past .
27 It was designed to focus appraisal on teachers ' needs for in-service training and other forms of support .
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