Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] intend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best-known , however , is the Contes moralisés ( probably written after 1320 ) , a collection of prose stories and exempla illustrating some moral point , which were perhaps intended to be used in sermons . |
| 2 | They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps . |
| 3 | The projected dividends were not intended to be a forecast . |
| 4 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 5 | Linda 's photos — taken in Paul 's early heady years of fatherhood — were not intended to be published at the time . |
| 6 | Many were recovered from dark caves and rock crevices where they were not intended to be seen by mortal eyes . |
| 7 | Very many misunderstandings occur because messages are decoded in ways in which they were not intended to be . |
| 8 | The categories were not intended to be exhaustive . |
| 9 | This difference in treatment between pre- and post-petition assignments is so stark that the inevitable conclusion is that pre-petition assignments were not intended to be outlawed . |
| 10 | These select committees were not intended to be tied to producing particular reports , but were to collect information and let the House and the public know what disputes were going on and what agreements were being reached within ministries , between them and between civil servants and outside pressure groups . |
| 11 | Nathan Marcus Adler [ q.v. ] , the ‘ chief rabbi ’ , became the supreme ecclesiastical authority of this body ; ministers of its constituent synagogues were not intended to be rabbinical authorities , but merely preachers and pastors . |
| 12 | Many early treaty collections , nevertheless , were not intended to be available to the general public at all . |
| 13 | In theory , the ‘ Constitutions ’ were clearly intended to be more authoritative than the ‘ decrees ’ ; and , all in all , they were . |
| 14 | Such redemption annuities were originally intended to be payable till 1996 , but they were ended by the Finance Act 1977 , and the final payments ( of double the normal sum ) were made on 1 October 1977 . |
| 15 | It was also the realisation of the fundamental concept behind page description languages , in that they were originally intended to be used for creating displays rather than driving printers , and the beginning of Adobe 's attempt to create a standard for graphics systems , now known as Display PostScript . |
| 16 | ‘ Fine for a 1950s semi , but old buildings were n't intended to be hermetically sealed ; preventing moisture getting in and out causes real damage . ’ |
| 17 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 18 | They were never intended to be observed out of mere formality and empty ritual . |
| 19 | The circumstances in that case involving , as they did , buying and selling in well defined foreign markets were very different from those in the present and the examples were never intended to be exhaustive of all situations in which section 14 of the Ordinance might have to be considered . |
| 20 | It is difficult to understand why this screen — which was presumably intended to be a close-boarded fence — was needed , as the turnpike road is some distance away , one field beyond the other side of the river . |
| 21 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 22 | This was a house that cried out to be lived in , was perhaps intended to be the home that Ace had never had as a child . |
| 23 | It was apparently intended to be the north Hertfordshire commercial equivalent of Baghdad ! |
| 24 | The first National Government was not intended to be a coalition government in the normal sense of the term . |
| 25 | Rather than some forbidding official document , his report consisted of a letter to me with the disclaimer that it was not intended to be a major addition to the already considerable library of the National Health Service . |
| 26 | We made it clear that the list of authors was not intended to be comprehensive : ‘ We stress again that we are not recommending as set texts the books of the authors listed … |
| 27 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 28 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 29 | The ECSC was not , and was not intended to be , that type of institution . |
| 30 | The land tax was not intended to be a pension fund , but it is evident that it could , and occasionally did , serve as such , for joint-collectorships were common . |