Example sentences of "[is] intend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's small businessmen , who are the store 's intended customers , are not ready for the American concept , Nielson believes . |
| 2 | Some of the designs are imported , others are composed in the factories by stylists — either an original design or one based on a specific order or according to the article 's intended market . |
| 3 | After referring to textbooks on the subject and to cases referring to clerical errors in other contexts , Mr Evans-Lombe said that the term ‘ clerical error ’ in s 20(1) ( a ) meant an error made in the process of recording the testator 's intended words in the drafting or transcription of the will . |
| 4 | His view that the accountants in the earlier case owed a duty of care was based on the fact that they had actual knowledge of the plaintiff 's intended and actual reliance on the accounts that they were to prepare . |
| 5 | Often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child 's intended meaning or elaborated so that new but related information is added . |
| 6 | Examples included direct imitation , expansion of the child 's utterance into a phrase or sentence which captures the child 's intended meaning , extensions which include a novel contribution , and recastings in which the child 's meaning is reflected back in a different syntactical form ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 7 | Rosing , known for playing his cards close to his vest , declined to discuss specific products or the company 's intended customers . |
| 8 | It 's intended for low-end machines and multiprocessors . |
| 9 | The graphics subsystem is built around custom chips and plugs into the TurboChannel of the host processor : it 's intended for the Alpha-based Titan 2.0 — a multi-processor graphics workstation — but it will also run on the MIPS-based Titan 1.0 . |
| 10 | The lower-level subskills involved in word recognition can become automatised through practice , and this is necessary so that the reader 's mind can be left free to attempt alternate integrations in order to calculate the writer 's intended meaning . |
| 11 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 12 | We seek to identify the writer 's intended referent for a pronoun , since a pronoun can , in effect , be used to refer to almost anything . |
| 13 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 14 | Can Lord Wellworthy enforce the covenant made with Lord Sloane against Mr Sly and prevent Mr Sly 's intended use of Ramsden Manor as a country club ? |
| 15 | I thought that this was a most extraordinary conversation to be having about one 's intended groom , but I was feeling lighter . |
| 16 | It 's intended to suggest that I may be a more complex character than they assume . |
| 17 | The trouble with having lived in the Middle East for a year or two is that , wherever one goes , one is bound to run into acquaintances ; and that means drinks at the nearest bar , and more acquaintances , and finally the complete derangement of one 's intended programme , and great loss of time . |
| 18 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 19 | Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other . |
| 20 | The use of strategies to interpret problematic utterances appears to be incompatible with coming to understand that a verbal message may not provide adequate information about the speaker 's intended meaning . |
| 21 | This project examines some of the circumstances in which young children are prepared to abandon the implicit working assumption that the speaker 's intended meaning can be identified on the basis of the verbal message given . |
| 22 | Throwing his left arm high , he presented his rigid forearm to the open jaws of the leaping Satan , offering it as an alternative target to the beast 's intended throat-rip . |
| 23 | What 's intended ? ’ |
| 24 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 25 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 26 | The Minister of State at the Scottish Office on British Steel 's intended programme of capacity cuts in Scotland : |
| 27 | It should result in a clear statement of that practice area 's intended position in the marketplace and how it can differentiate itself from its competitors . |
| 28 | The effect of this is that the finance company would be regarded as knowing what its agent knows , namely that the proposal form does not represent the customer 's intended offer . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's intended to be . |
| 30 | Dolores and her father were already at the table , and her two brothers were just washing their hands in the kitchen with young Pablo the fisherman who was Lina 's intended . |