Example sentences of "it [was/were] originally intended " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was originally intended that entitlement to the allowance would cease at 65 , the upper age limit for payment has been extended twice , most recently by the 1989 Social Security Act , when it was changed from 75 to 80 . |
| 2 | This means that , although it was originally intended to publish a longer work , it was never completed and that the three volumes out of the planned six , or some other combination , are all that will ever be available , unless some other author is eventually commissioned to complete the job . |
| 3 | It was originally intended to make an embankment across the Coomb Valley which was to be pierced by a bridge to accommodate a roadway . |
| 4 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 5 | Although it was originally intended to receive exhibitions rather than to devise and produce them , the new federal Kunsthalle is now setting its sights higher . |
| 6 | The record of a system should describe the system as it is actually used rather than the form in which it was originally intended to be used . |
| 7 | The sculptural group for which it was originally intended as a pedestal has now gone and the proportion of the arch appears too tall and narrow . |
| 8 | Opposition to the move , at the annual Scottish Prison Officers ' Association conference in Inverness yesterday came from the staff of Porterfield Prison , Inverness , who claimed that the moth-balled unit would not fulfil the role for which it was originally intended — to house disruptive prisoners . |