Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be intended " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 2 | Siphoning money abroad in this way is a typical case to which the new legislation must have been intended to apply . |
| 3 | These settings must have been intended for private use since Calvin objected to polyphony in church , but when the Lutherans adopted them , using Ambrosius Lobwasser 's translation of Marot-de Beze ( Leipzig , 1573 ) , their congregations undoubtedly sang the tunes . |
| 4 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 5 | ( b ) The property must have been intended for private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 6 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 7 | These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery . |
| 8 | It also dates 1st century and could have been intended as either a key or a knife handle ( although the fact that it has a circular socket favours its use as a key handle ) . |
| 9 | It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe . |
| 10 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 11 | This blockbuster may have been intended to rival Gone with the Wind but the result is sub-Dallas , sub-Dynasty . |
| 12 | In some cases bodies were covered with red ochre , which may have been intended to simulate blood , in the hope of averting physical extinction . |
| 13 | A significant detail is the forked ends of the severed heads which may have been intended to suggest the immediate growth of two replacements , as in the classical version of the myth . |
| 14 | This ‘ Truman Doctrine ’ may have been intended primarily to ‘ scare ’ Congress into giving the required money . |
| 15 | The curved opening behind the body of the animal may have been intended to allow easy gripping of the blade when opening it out . |
| 16 | The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession . |
| 17 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 18 | Brezhnev 's scheme for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to reassure India of the Soviet desire for peace in India 's vicinity . |
| 19 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 20 | This offensive took place between Marivan and Sardasht on the night of 19–20 October 1983 and may have been intended to cut the lines of communication between the Iraqi forces and the KDPI . |
| 21 | The presence of such items in a church may have been intended to increase popular respect for the monarchy . |
| 22 | to misinterpret religious people 's behaviour and commitment ; 2. to take literally what may have been intended metaphorically or symbolically ; 3. not even to see the possibility of the truth of religious concepts . |
| 23 | There was a special , elaborately canopied seat high on the stern , which we may suppose was intended for the ship 's captain , and a row of twenty oarsmen on each side of the ship . |
| 24 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 25 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |
| 26 | Injections of " capital " from this source will probably differ wildly from one partner to the next and so , taking the generalised capital clause at its face value , adjustments to capital sharing ratios will appear to be taking place at annual intervals , whereas no change at all will have been intended by the partners . |
| 27 | His lecture is a very good example , therefore , of " pragmatic ambivalence " ( Leech 1983 ) , conveying , on one level , an academic argument which is appropriate to the speech event , but on another level , a strongly political protest which is not , and which he may deny was intended if challenged . |