Example sentences of "[was/were] intended [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These exemplars were chosen to reflect a range of different traffic situations within each junction and were intended to be representative of the full set of 28 films of each junction available from the drives in Study 1 . |
| 2 | These were intended to be interim arrangements only , and further negotiations took place to try to establish the bases of a more lasting political union . |
| 3 | The 1984 arrangements , though subject to considerable criticism , were intended to be transitional . |
| 4 | In terms of the impulse for social reform which motivated many of these surveys , such facts were intended to be difficult to rebut by erstwhile opponents of reform . |
| 5 | The retirement of the Rev William Sleight was intended to be partial . |
| 6 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry ! ’ he said , adding in a tone that was intended to be gentle , but came out wheedling , ‘ Do you find me repulsive ? ’ |
| 8 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 9 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |
| 10 | An expensive film may well be a flop ( Blade Runner cost $27 million yet took under $15 million in North American ( NA ) rentals , which are traditionally supposed to cover negative — that is production — costs for break-even ) ; the fact that it was intended to be profitable puts it in the domain of popular cinema . |
| 11 | A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe . |
| 12 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 13 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 14 | Wimpy International Ltd v Warland [ 1988 ] STC 149 had determined that the facts to be considered were : whether an item appeared visually to retain a separate identity ; the degree of permanence with which it had been attached ; the incompleteness of the structure without it ; and the extent to which it was intended to be permanent . |
| 15 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 16 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |