Example sentences of "intended to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended to be a contribution to the history of style rather than of individual artists . |
| 2 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 3 | The information provided in this leaflet is not intended to be exhaustive , but tells you the basic facts about the IUD on the basis of evidence available at the time of publication . |
| 4 | The handbook is intended to be a readable guide to the NHS for all those interested , whether health authority members , staff or members of the public . |
| 5 | If the board is intended to be on view , it should be laid smooth side up , then finished with a paint or varnish coating . |
| 6 | TableCurve is intended to be a fast , one-pass curve-fitting program , with minimal user input . |
| 7 | ‘ Fine for a 1950s semi , but old buildings were n't intended to be hermetically sealed ; preventing moisture getting in and out causes real damage . ’ |
| 8 | The projected dividends were not intended to be a forecast . |
| 9 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 10 | Further delays could have a serious effects on Army plans to introduce a fleet of gunship anti-tank helicopters , for which the long range Trigat is intended to be the primary weapon . |
| 11 | Below the editorial level the real contact between the masses and the press was intended to be the worker-peasant correspondents ( Rabselkor ) . |
| 12 | The reunion is held every two years and although this year 's was intended to be the last , organiser John Gray of Plymouth , said : ‘ Every time I say I 'm not going to do it again , they twist my arm to plan another . ’ |
| 13 | The third stage ( 1946 ) was to increase the pension to what was intended to be subsistence level , but render it conditional on retirement and make contribution compulsory for virtually all . |
| 14 | The first National Government was not intended to be a coalition government in the normal sense of the term . |
| 15 | His detailed study of the writing of anthropologists was clearly intended to be the basis of a future publication . |
| 16 | In fact his death made this unrealizable , although Engels 's book , The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , based as it is on Marx 's notes , was intended to be the one that Marx was unable to write . |
| 17 | These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss . |
| 18 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 19 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's event was intended to be a re-creation of the ‘ people power ’ uprising that swept Mrs Aquino to office . |
| 21 | Such redemption annuities were originally intended to be payable till 1996 , but they were ended by the Finance Act 1977 , and the final payments ( of double the normal sum ) were made on 1 October 1977 . |
| 22 | Rather than some forbidding official document , his report consisted of a letter to me with the disclaimer that it was not intended to be a major addition to the already considerable library of the National Health Service . |
| 23 | In his earlier story , The Premature Burial ( 1844 ) , Poe set out to confuse his readers : whilst the pseudo-autobiographical part is clearly fiction , the introductory section , with its reference to the ‘ Chirugical Journal of Leipzig ’ , seems intended to be read as fact . |
| 24 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 25 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 26 | I can only tell you that it is intended to be read by a very limited circle of people in the medical profession . |
| 27 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 28 | The First Wives Club was intended to be ‘ tongue-in-chic ’ , but it has struck a nerve . |
| 29 | WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline . |
| 30 | They say their findings are not intended to be taken as predictions , rather as snapshots of public opinion at a particular time ( though they are quick to claim credit when their ‘ snapshots ’ coincide with the final result ) . |