Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] intend [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The First Wives Club was intended to be ‘ tongue-in-chic ’ , but it has struck a nerve . |
| 2 | Powered by six NK11As of 2,500hp each this strategic bomber was intended to be based in Hokkaido to carry out attacks on the Continental USA , using radar to ensure target identification at night or in bad weather . |
| 3 | The break was intended to be a long one , possibly a year or two . |
| 4 | It was important that the underwear was intended to be worn as supplied and no instructions to wash before using were given . |
| 5 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 6 | The dilemma is simple : if the Sistine Chapel 's wall and ceiling were intended to be preserved as form , they should not have been painted with frescoes , it means that someone wanted to remove forever their original architectural character and create something else , which is acceptable ’ . |
| 7 | This is something of a paradox when one remembers Lord Hailsham 's assurance that the 1981 Act was intended to be a liberalising measure . |
| 8 | So , as I stood there on Hampstead Heath , I felt that it was just from that point of view that the single surviving Pinus sylvestris was intended to be seen . |
| 9 | Sometimes called Scotland 's Disgrace , because it was never finished for lack of funds , this fragment of a memorial to the fallen in the Napoleonic War was intended to be a facsimile of the parthenon . |
| 10 | He evidently considered that all pottery of that period was intended to be reduced black or grey , and thought that black burnished were actually coated with bitumen . |
| 11 | It is , however , by no means certain that such a limitation was intended to be introduced by the Court of Appeal . |
| 12 | The community charge was intended to be a simple and visible system of raising revenue in which the behaviour of profligate ( assumed to be Labour ) councils would be evident to the electorate . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's event was intended to be a re-creation of the ‘ people power ’ uprising that swept Mrs Aquino to office . |
| 14 | It was plain that the document as whole was intended to be kept confidential by the plaintiffs and that this fact was firmly impressed upon anyone who had anything to do with it . |
| 15 | His paper was intended to be a tentative , exploratory investigation of British data and little else besides . |
| 16 | The original design of Q magazine was intended to be highly distinctive , to create impact and to celebrate the total quality programme . |
| 17 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 18 | The prosecution does not have to show that the weapon of offence was intended to be used during the burglary . |
| 19 | In 1697 Peter I sent groups of Russian nobles to Venice , the Dutch republic and England , essentially to study seamanship ; but though their training was intended to be purely technical they none the less provided when they returned home a nucleus of mainly young men with experience of foreign countries and a grasp of foreign languages . |
| 20 | The weight or level of materiality attached to the initial consultative draft was intended to be the minimum possible , contrary to the sentiments expressed in letter . |
| 21 | The status was intended to be enduring until its objectives were achieved , or until it was changed in accordance with the Mandate agreement . |
| 22 | But perhaps Charles 's realm was intended to be rather more than a prospective one . |
| 23 | The absence of any similar provision in relation to section 69(1) further reinforces my belief that the section 69(1) duty was intended to be exercised , subject to the supervisory jurisdiction of the courts , by the local authority . |
| 24 | Below the editorial level the real contact between the masses and the press was intended to be the worker-peasant correspondents ( Rabselkor ) . |
| 25 | That promise was intended to be acted on , and was in fact acted on . |
| 26 | The Robe was intended to be the boldest and grandest yet — as epic as de Mille but with a serious and intelligent slant on the story of Christ . |
| 27 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 28 | The original OEM agreement was intended to be a stopgap while IBM developed its own fault-tolerant machines . |
| 29 | The whole structure was , and to some extent was intended to be , quite flexible , almost like a basket . |