Example sentences of "intended [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 2 | The earlier of these were probably intended to fill out the unused space at the end of the longer pieces ( Bach was a great paper magpie ) , while the later ones ( notably the prelude on ‘ Jesus Christus unser Heiland ’ ) were conceived on a much more generous scale . |
| 3 | Despite talk of ‘ peaceful coexistence ’ with the West after Stalin , Russian leaders never intended to give up the ideological struggle with capitalism . |
| 4 | SeaDocs was intended to bring about the telecommunicated negotiation of bills of lading issued in connection with oil shipments . |
| 5 | A very large part of Marx 's work was intended to show how the particular form and representation of labour under capitalism was an extraordinary fantasy . |
| 6 | Enhancement in this context means the carrying out of works which are intended to lengthen substantially the useful life of the asset , to increase substantially its open market value , or to increase substantially the extent to which the asset will serve the purposes of the local authority concerned . |