Example sentences of "good of intention " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , therefore , is a chronicle of failure , though a gallant failure and of a project engaged in with the best of intentions . |
| 2 | The Problem of Pain was written with the best of intentions . |
| 3 | The inspector should not allow himself to be led , often with the best of intentions , by people proud to show off the area . |
| 4 | Although this is undoubtedly the law , it often seems to be ignored , particularly in the United States , where pointless efforts are made by doctors , albeit often with the best of intentions . |
| 5 | Neither can reasons of motive or intention be relied upon if , for the sake of argument , I admit that good faith and the best of intentions prevail throughout . |
| 6 | This was done with the best of intentions , to stop consumers damaging such records with mono pickups , but it opened the floodgates to many types of fake-stereo records in the following decades . |
| 7 | One can bludgeon them with facts , anecdotes and innuendoes about the ways in which land is being misused , show that even the best of intentions are misguided , and that most people who have to do with land and what it provides hold views which are wrong . |
| 8 | So you can see that , without professional help , we can make our problems worse , even with the best of intentions . |
| 9 | Sometimes , with the best of intentions , the words do not come out quite right . |
| 10 | If it is difficult to change habits like smoking or drinking , despite the best of intentions , then the switch to nut steaks and vegetable lasagne might be just as painful , and for those forced to it because of the unavailability of meat it would also be deeply resented . |
| 11 | Marks & Spencer has , we are sure , nothing but the best of intentions for Brooks Brothers , which is why it has given the American clothier the benefit of its most successful ideas . |
| 12 | During queuing periods , there have been occasions when I have witnessed nursery nurse students , with the best of intentions , ‘ helping ’ life preparation students , for example by operating the machine for them or by ‘ allowing ’ them to jump the queue . |
| 13 | The Canadian government intervened with measures to help the fishermen and other measures to help the fish ; and though it acted with the best of intentions , it had the worst of results . |
| 14 | A complaint by a disturbed or malicious client , an injudicious act carried out with the best of intentions , even the possibility of undue personal involvement might all have this unfortunate result . |
| 15 | With the best of intentions , but still the pain exists . |
| 16 | The question is whether he is in addition permitted to say that , although he was aware that he was causing difficulties , he was doing so from the best of intentions . |
| 17 | Even with the best of intentions it will be difficult to undo past developments . |
| 18 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 19 | If you go somewhere determined , with the best of intentions , to make changes for the better , you are likely to be on the look-out for faults to correct . |
| 20 | Much has been said about what a Labour Government could and could not do , but I am certain that a Labour Government would set out with the best of intentions to improve the situation . |
| 21 | Tonight 's programme has been made with the benefit of time and I think with the best of intentions . |