Example sentences of "it be not my 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm , and it is not my intention to implement that minute at the moment , because I think it relates purely to a London situation . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is not my intention to argue that the strategies identified here are necessarily exhaustive of those that pertain in other units . |
| 8 | It is not my intention to describe in detail a particular course at a particular institution . |
| 9 | But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |