Sentence examples for designed to catch a from inspiring English sources
They're badgirs, wind towers cunningly designed to catch a passing breeze and funnel it down over a pool of water in the house to provide a surprisingly effective form of natural air-conditioning.
City and Verizon officials said that while the backup system in place for 911 was functioning properly, it failed to pick up the calls because it was designed to catch a technical error, not a human error that would be interpreted as simply a change of instruction.
Mavalvala and her collaborators are fashioning an ultrasensitive telescope designed to catch a glimpse of gravitational waves.
The follow-up study was designed to catch all infants eligible for helmet therapy after a period of paediatric physiotherapy or a single consultation.
"Flu Trends was never designed to catch only a few dozen cases of flu," Jeremy Ginsberg, lead engineer of the project, wrote in an e-mail message.
Bharat Karnad, a strategic affairs analyst who frequently finds fault with the Congress Party-led coalition government, called the mission a "grandiloquent" effort designed to catch up with a far more advanced Chinese space program.
Public muttering usually swells into a powerful chorus for reform -- deep, systemic changes designed to catch up with a whole new range and capacity for frauds and finagles and bring them under regulatory control.
Fish were caught in July and August 2004 with multi mesh gill net (Faarups Specialnet, Denmark) of a type proposed for monitoring use in Nordic countries (referred to as 'biological survey gill nets'; Nordic Norm) designed to catch representatively across a population.
If you don't want silverfish touching your glassware, you can buy traps designed to catch them from a hardware store.
In addition, it will employ a new test designed to catch players using synthetic testosterone, a substance that appears to be growing in popularity because it washes out of a player's body fairly quickly after being used, making it hard to detect.
Wine labels are designed to catch your eye in a dizzying sea of often-lookalike options, but grabbing for the cutest label in the liquor store is akin to grabbing a dress off the rack and heading straight for the cash register: you should at least read the label and check the price before you check out.
