Example sentences of "it is not [pron] intention [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Erm , and it is not my intention to implement that minute at the moment , because I think it relates purely to a London situation . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not my intention to argue that the strategies identified here are necessarily exhaustive of those that pertain in other units . |
| 7 | It is not my intention to describe in detail a particular course at a particular institution . |
| 8 | But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I confirm that it is not our intention to widen the M25 outside its present curtilage . |
| 12 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |