Example sentences of "designed [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new clauses are designed to set out the structure for a funding council skeleton on which such structures would be built . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State was tackling negligent parents in a wide-ranging , keynote address to Conservative Party members in Aberdeen , designed to set out the Government 's renewed — but traditional — agenda for schooling . |
| 3 | Several banks operate special accounts designed to smooth out the impact of these unavoidable and important bills , many of which arise quarterly . |
| 4 | He saw the Shah 's reform movement as designed to sell out the country to foreign powers , especially Israel and the Untied States , and he exhorted the mullahs to resist . |
| 5 | A plant 's leaves are ideally placed to detect day length , for they are designed to pick up the sun 's light for photosynthesis . |
| 6 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 7 | The first thing the researchers discovered was that special infrared cameras , designed to pick up the heat given off by warm-blooded animals , failed to detect polar bears — the insulation provided by their coats is too efficient . |
| 8 | About the opportunity , Greg was less than happy : if the fire , designed to cover up the murder ( which it so successfully had ) , was started in the attic , could Viola have done it ? |
| 9 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
| 10 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 11 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | The favourite explanation , however , was ‘ speculative hoarding ’ , and it was this which became the target for government action ( in addition to a series of measures designed to speed up the release and development of land ) . |
| 13 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 14 | Designed to speed up the purchasing process , a ‘ logbook ’ would set out the condition of a home and any work done to it , as well as listing surveys . |
| 15 | Indeed , in a move designed to speed up the process Lloyd has made a ‘ little publicised ’ offer to the Lawn Tennis Associations ITI set up , which would see him build centres — ITI centres — and run them as such , in addition to running them as private clubs . |
| 16 | The restrictions were initially adopted as a temporary measure designed to slow down the flight of foreign currency reserves from the country . |
| 17 | They still have all the advantages of slings and are designed to balance out the child 's weight more evenly . |
| 18 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 19 | Torquay was a frequent winner , with its carefully designed beds of petunias , zinnias , and brilliant pink geraniums , designed to show off the colour harmonies . |
| 20 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 21 | Commentators suggested that the shipment was designed to shore up the confidence of the international community in the face of India 's precarious foreign exchange position . |