Example sentences of "designed [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sculpture , created by Irena Adams and featuring giant bat shapes , was built to demonstrate bricks specially designed to accommodate the furry flying mammals in buildings . |
| 2 | They were designed to carry the maximum possible tonnage of coal under the Thames bridges with the minimum of clearance both under keel and overhead . |
| 3 | Corporatism is designed to sustain the existing economic system by securing the co-operation of labour in policies for incomes , prices , profits and dividends which can only be against its long-term interests ( Panitch 1979 ; Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 5 | The architects say the building has been designed to meet the highest archival standards so that the records can be stored at the correct temperature and humidity . |
| 6 | The first is to generate a large number of test items designed to indicate the supposed social or attitudinal attribute . |
| 7 | The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors . |
| 8 | Until fairly recently , translations from Horace were not designed to serve the simple informative purpose of telling an inquisitive reader what Horace 's writing was like , what sort of thing might be found in his poems , and whether it might be worth learning a little Latin to find out more . |
| 9 | ‘ A competition designed to replace the old final trial and one which is supposed to produce the national squad , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Designed to replace the old blue plates with their yellow numbers , the State 's Department of Motor Vehicles was proud of the fact that the new plates ‘ offer an almost infinite number of combinations ’ , but was nervous about where some of those combinations might lead them . |
| 11 | You may not have noticed but September is National Breweries month , designed to celebrate the traditional British pint . |
| 12 | The medical and surgical complex is housed within six , two-storey wings which are linked by a network of attractive ‘ streets ’ designed to reflect the neighbouring residential location . |
| 13 | All were merely delaying tactics designed to conceal the basic French distaste for West German rearmament and the weakness of French governments . |
| 14 | Modern Fourier transform interferometers , designed to operate mainly in the IR , can also be used up to 16 000 cm -1 or so , covering part of the visible region , and instruments designed to cover the entire visible region should be available soon . |
| 15 | The grant and loan system is designed to cover the entire academic year , not just part of it . |
| 16 | AND ALL ARE DESIGNED TO GIVE THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE MILEAGE . |
| 17 | That is , it is simply ( and yet , how far from simple ! ) an enabling mechanism , a device designed to give the fullest possible expression to its subject without unwarranted attempts at ‘ interpretation ’ . |
| 18 | It 's a box trickle filter — as is the new unit from Top-Up Aquatics designed to use the new British Filter Coral from to with media ; add for powerhead and air pump supplied ( technical review next month ) . |
| 19 | Craigbarnet was not so easily disposed of , however , and by the winter of 1726–7 the Montrose interest had hit on another scheme designed to satisfy the needy Jacobite laird with the influential friends . |
| 20 | This course has been designed to address the continuing worldwide requirement for highly-educated and skilled graduates to play leading roles in the design and development of computer-based information systems . |
| 21 | For the moment , however , we should recognise that the concern to strengthen intra-party democracy through constitutional reforms designed to hold the Parliamentary Labour Party accountable to the rank and file may do little to ensure that any future Labour Government delivers of its manifesto ( and possibly socialist ) promises since these reforms do not come to terms with power , the state , and the market . |
| 22 | The original research was designed to investigate the subsequent labour-market behaviour of a sample of steelworkers made redundant from the British Steel Corporation , Port Talbot , South Wales , and to relate this behaviour to the type of domestic organisation of their households and the character of their local social networks . |
| 23 | Hills 's visit to Tokyo was described by observers as a precursor to a second round of talks known as the Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) — a series of theoretical discussions designed to change the broad economic characteristics responsible for the USA 's huge trade deficit with Japan [ for September 1989 SII talks see p. 36892 ] . |
| 24 | According to one senior civil servant , Otto Clarke , PES was designed to achieve the effective collective responsibility of ministers for public expenditure , regular ministerial appraisal of public expenditure for five years ahead , and increased stability of public expenditure ( see Hennessy , 1989a , p. 179 ) . |
| 25 | The purpose is to evaluate different strategies designed to achieve the appropriate dietary change within the framework of existing food production , processing and marketing industries . |
| 26 | The first was the Graduates Association , comprising the leading members who were designed to become the future governing aristocracy of the fascist corporate state . |
| 27 | The ‘ cost pass-through ’ mechanism is designed to override the five yearly profit limits set by the director general , called the K-factor . |
| 28 | But in reality it was a compromise designed to bring the long factional struggle about Pilger 's role to an end . |