Example sentences of "designed [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the terms implied by sections 12–15 are designed to see that the buyer receives certain basic benefits from the transaction . |
| 2 | These are designed to slip if the buckets hit an obstruction . |
| 3 | This is designed to ensure that the policing of the demonstration can be properly planned . |
| 4 | Of these , 102 episodes fitted the criteria described in the methods section , which were designed to ensure that the effects of swallowing or straining did not influence assessment of the effect of reflux on UOS pressures . |
| 5 | They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions . |
| 6 | ‘ Community law as it now stands … does not preclude a member state , in authorising one of its vessels to fish against national quotas , from laying down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel has a real economic link with that state if that link concerns only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries ; … |
| 7 | In the judgment in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. the court ruled , inter alia , that a member state might lay down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel had a real economic link with that state if that link concerned only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries . |
| 8 | The Act also includes a Scheme of Operations designed to ensure that the construction of the tunnel produces a minimum adverse environmental impact in Kent . |
| 9 | An internal system of control of a business should be designed to ensure that the policies of the management are being followed , that financial records are accurate , that the assets of the company have been safeguarded and that the opportunities for fraud are kept to a minimum . |
| 10 | In a special case , however , it may be appropriate to deal expressly with improvements made by subtenants. ( g ) Other obligations Since the landlord 's income will usually depend on rents generated by actual lettings of the property , the landlord will require the tenant to enter into a series of obligations designed to ensure that the scheme is kept fully let at rack rents . |
| 11 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 12 | The Port of Belfast now handles more than 55% of Northern Ireland 's seaborne trade and the Harbour Commissioners feel that this success is due in no small part to the investment programme which saw £25 million invested over the last five years in a modernisation programme designed to ensure that the Port of Belfast can offer its customers the most up to date , cost effective cargo handling facilities . |
| 13 | Because travelling at walking pace is so rare an experience for car drivers , the Woonerf must be well designed to ensure that the need for low speeds is made very clear . |
| 14 | The scope of our work was designed to ensure that the information on deliveries was obtained in accordance with the stated methodology and sampling programme set out on page … and that the results were correctly calculated and presented . |
| 15 | It was difficult to believe that these birds had been harvested for food on Mykines for generations , or to argue against the Faroese claim that the strict regulations which apply to the fowling are designed to ensure that the population numbers are not adversely affected . |
| 16 | The press is uniquely designed to ensure that the pressure exerted is swift — to reduce the skin-contact time — and yet gentle enough to avoid the escape of unfavourable tannins and oils residing naturally in the pips and stalks . |
| 17 | All these obligations are designed to ensure that the tenant keeps up the real value of the scheme and that the landlord 's income remains as high as possible . |
| 18 | Pollitt argues that the model of medical audit promulgated by the leaders of the profession was designed to ensure that the process was " a nonthreatening activity carried out only by doctors and rigorously protected from the public gaze " ( Pollitt 1992 : 4 ) . |
| 19 | The schedules are designed to ensure that the task of assessment and subsequent planning is shared between all those involved in the care of a child , and that omissions are rectified as they become evident . |
| 20 | The initial check , Gilmont says , is designed to determine if the bill is coherent ; if in fact , it belongs to the bank , and if it shows an amount that corresponds to what the bank expected to be billed . |
| 21 | The education system is designed to imply that the whole of black African society is inferior and marginal , morally and intellectually ; that blacks have no history worthy of recollection ; that their culture is at best no more than ‘ picturesque ’ . |
| 22 | The pluralist arguments , on the other hand , are designed to show that the possibility of such criteria is ensured by the existence of logically irreducible relations ; or by the existence of irreducibly relational , and hence essentially " pluralistically committed " , properties . |
| 23 | His article is designed to show that the situation was similar on 31 January , 1950 , when President Harry Truman ordered an all-out effort to develop the hydrogen bomb or ‘ Super ’ . |
| 24 | The Long constructs contain the Ead gene , in addition to 23 kb of 5' Ea sequence and 4.5 kb of 3' Ea sequence ( Figure 1c ) and was designed to show whether the presence of the upstream regions containing DH groups III-V were of functional importance to position-independent , copy-dependent expression of the Ea transgene . |