Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been intend [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 2 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 3 | Siphoning money abroad in this way is a typical case to which the new legislation must have been intended to apply . |
| 4 | He might have been intending to go back to his family and appear utterly horrified while breaking the news of my death . |
| 5 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 6 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 7 | Parliament may have been intending to legislate in such all-embracing terms . |
| 8 | This blockbuster may have been intended to rival Gone with the Wind but the result is sub-Dallas , sub-Dynasty . |
| 9 | In some cases bodies were covered with red ochre , which may have been intended to simulate blood , in the hope of averting physical extinction . |
| 10 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 11 | The curved opening behind the body of the animal may have been intended to allow easy gripping of the blade when opening it out . |
| 12 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 13 | Brezhnev 's scheme for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to reassure India of the Soviet desire for peace in India 's vicinity . |
| 14 | The presence of such items in a church may have been intended to increase popular respect for the monarchy . |
| 15 | A significant detail is the forked ends of the severed heads which may have been intended to suggest the immediate growth of two replacements , as in the classical version of the myth . |
| 16 | This offensive took place between Marivan and Sardasht on the night of 19–20 October 1983 and may have been intended to cut the lines of communication between the Iraqi forces and the KDPI . |
| 17 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |