Example sentences of "it be not [pron] intention [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 2 | It 's not my intention to jeopardise your recovery in any way . ’ |
| 3 | So we wish therefore to remove this first constraint on our powers and I 'd emphasise again that it is , is our intention to use , it 's not our intention to use the wider powers to increase the risks , it 's simply to improve er , our ability to gain the best returns and satisfy the objectives of the Council . |
| 4 | Although the approach of this book makes its political stance clear , it is not its intention to undertake a wide-ranging critique of various models of social change . |
| 5 | While it is not my intention to turn conventional theory on its head , it often happens that theories become accepted facts because people simply repeat them , without anyone ever questioning them . |
| 6 | Erm , and it is not my intention to implement that minute at the moment , because I think it relates purely to a London situation . |
| 7 | Trollope portrays her as an overbearing , bossy wife and woman right from the start even though he says ‘ it is not my intention to breathe a word against the character of Mrs. Proudie ’ . |
| 8 | It is not my intention to argue that villagers confused the two institutions , or that they thought magistrates and demons to be similar types of beings . |
| 9 | It is not my intention to argue that the strategies identified here are necessarily exhaustive of those that pertain in other units . |
| 10 | It is not my intention to describe in detail a particular course at a particular institution . |
| 11 | But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference . |
| 12 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |
| 13 | It is not my intention to dispute Samaraweera 's assertion that the newly-imposed colonial judicial system was alien to Sri Lankan values , but to explain how , in spite of this , the system proved popular . |
| 14 | I confirm that it is not our intention to widen the M25 outside its present curtilage . |
| 15 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 16 | It is not our intention to supply the reader with the full details of the various initiatives ; instead we seek to examine the effect of these initiatives on organisations . |
| 17 | Paragraph , of course this seed is still in Christchurch New Zealand and it is not our intention to bring any forward to the U K at this time . |
| 18 | While we are here concerned with the understanding and use of BSL , it is not our intention to maintain , particularly in relation to education , that this is the only method of approach . |
| 19 | The council agreed to buy the station for — it 's about three hundred and twenty five thousand , but I want to make this point , that it is n't their intention to close the boat station . |
| 20 | ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’ |
| 21 | I may say that it was not my intention to allow Harold Wilson to become involved in a full-scale lawsuit in circumstances where not so much odium but ridicule would be poured on him . |
| 22 | Mr Wilcock told the bench that Mr Smith was not a cruel man , and that it was not his intention to cause his animals suffering . |
| 23 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 24 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |