Example sentences of "[be] intended as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the documents considered so far have been intended as items for discussion or guidance to schools and local authorities . |
| 2 | The thing to remember about proof-reading is that a proof-reader 's corrections are intended as advice to the printer , not as a punishment to the writer . |
| 3 | However a great deal of casual conversation contains phrases and echoes of phrases which appear more to be intended as contributions to a conversation than to be taken as instances of information-giving . |
| 4 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 5 | Their ports and forts in the Spice Islands or the West Indies or the West Coast of Africa were intended as supply bases for shipping and not as the starting point for territorial expansion . |