grand design

collocation in English

meaningsofgrandanddesign

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grand
adjective
uk
/ɡrænd/us
/ɡrænd/
important and large ...
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design
noun
uk
/dɪˈzaɪn/us
/dɪˈzaɪn/
a drawing or set of drawings showing how a building or product is to be made and how it will work ...
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(Definition ofgrandanddesignfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Second, and more importantly, his was agranddesignwhich linked all the major elements of the park in a strong and coherent scheme.
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The problem is that cattle distribution is necessarily dictated by such considerations as grazing and water availability, rather than by thegranddesignof the tsetse control officer.
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If my momentary goal in the dance is to twirl my partner glamorously under my arm, then her twirling is a tool in mygranddesign.
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Drury's is overall a rathergranddesign.
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We would wish this gift to blend in with thegranddesignfor your beautiful capital city.
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Those provisions were not thegranddesignof the judges.
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Thegranddesignwill not be complete until the hospital is built.
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We must all realise that when we discuss airport policy we are not simply discussing somegranddesignor some remote strategic decision.
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What is the position regarding the "granddesign".
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The stature and heritage of the buildings demand that the ideas for their future match theirgranddesign.
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But when has this country ever had a seriousgranddesignfor constitutional change?
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It is a great mistake to believe that there is one gloriousgranddesignor idea to solve all our problems.
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The same infectious enthusiasm has been expressed for thegranddesignof the barrage.
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Thegranddesignfor the rich is uninterested in the problems of life below the £5,000-a-year level.
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Thegranddesignof any new town means—and should mean—that certain facilities are built in.
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They do not link up to each other and there is no real, obviousgranddesign.
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I suggest that it is part of thegranddesignof those who support a federalist solution.
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Or we hope it has been overcome, because for six months, as has been said, the whole of thisgranddesignhas been held up.
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In other words, thegranddesignhere is to follow the profits from the letting, wheresoever they take us.
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