Example sentences of "was intended to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was intended to be heard , not read ( Ong 1982 ) ; the gospel , likewise , speaks to the heart when the redemption story is presented rhetorically and dramatically . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Certainly when it was finished nearly 200 years ago , it was intended to be seen by a lot of people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was important that the underwear was intended to be worn as supplied and no instructions to wash before using were given . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 11 | That promise was intended to be acted on , and was in fact acted on . |
| 12 | The ‘ waterfall ’ was intended to be powered by solar cells on the roof . |
| 13 | To decide whether it is successful , we have to know how it was intended to be used and what it was expected to achieve . |
| 14 | The prosecution does not have to show that the weapon of offence was intended to be used during the burglary . |
| 15 | Although the passages to which I first referred support the conclusion reached by Hoffmann J. as to the effect of the judgment of the Court of Appeal , I do not think that reading the judgment overall such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge ’ was intended to be laid down in Cloverbay . |
| 16 | The Faro a Colón ( Columbus Lighthouse ) , a favourite project of President Joaquín Balaguer which had cost an estimated US$25,000,000 , was intended to be inaugurated during a visit by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 9-14 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is , however , by no means certain that such a limitation was intended to be introduced by the Court of Appeal . |