Example sentences of "intended [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those texts are not intended to promote students ' engagement and critical thinking but , instead , are intended to initiate students into the culture of the scientific discipline in question . |
| 2 | The social security system was , at first , principally intended to support pensioners and , although the numbers have increased during the last forty years , the main increases in those claiming supplementary benefit ( now renamed income support , have been the unemployed and single parents ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 3 | The investigations into poverty carried out by Peter Townsend ( 1957 , 1979 ) were both descriptive and explanatory , and were intended to prompt governments into modifying their policies in relation to the poor . |
| 4 | Intended to stimulate exports and rationalize imports , and as a step towards full rouble convertibility , a decree of Oct. 26 set a rate of US$1.00=1.80 roubles , effective from Nov. 1 , for all imports and exports . |
| 5 | The Minister — this Minister — replied : ’ Warning signals are intended to alert officers to potential difficulties or risks in dealing with the individual . |
| 6 | These are intended to alert users to the wide range of material available in the library and have covered such topics as Aids , Anatomy and Art , Business and 1992 , Fractals , The Metric System and the Tulip . |
| 7 | The two LEAs in Wales were invited after advice from the Welsh Office , as it was intended to include tests in Welsh in the schools . |
| 8 | It is also intended to compare methods in terms of their outcomes . |
| 9 | The questionnaire shown in appendix 10 , is intended to enable teachers to personally assess their behaviour towards pupils of both sexes and is proposed , by the Canadian Committee on the Status of Women of the Government of Quebec , to be distributed to all teachers . |
| 10 | The remaining paragraphs , ( d ) to ( h ) , are intended to enable errors to be corrected . |
| 11 | ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’ |
| 12 | The requirements on schools to publish information about pupils ' aggregated results of national curriculum testing ( see Chapter 5 ) , and the decision in 1983 to publish HMI reports on individual schools , are clearly intended to enable parents to evaluate schools ' performance through a comparison of their academic achievements . |
| 13 | The methods proposed are intended to enable students to obtain insights into aspects of cohesion and narrative structure ; insights , it is suggested , which are not as readily obtainable through more traditional techniques of stylistic analysis . |
| 14 | The technology , which is intended to enable users tp link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 15 | An order for payment of money or for the transfer of assets can not be an order intended to restore parties to transactions to their former positions unless it is known in relation to each transaction in question ( a ) who were the parties ( b ) what the nature of the transaction was and ( c ) what assets or money each party to the transaction had paid or transferred to the others . |
| 16 | Finally , the Disclosure Directive contains a transitional provision which is intended to inform companies of the up-to-date position when the Directive is implemented . |
| 17 | They are intended to inform students what to study , teachers what to teach , and examiners what to examine . |
| 18 | It is obviously capable of overlapping other sections of the Act ; equally , it is obviously intended to catch exclusions of liability not covered by the other sections of the Act . |
| 19 | Where the grounds upon which it is intended to impose conditions are the intimidatory purposes of the persons organising , the chief constable is entitled to take into account the previous conduct of the organisers , including relevant criminal convictions if the organisers have any . |
| 20 | These arguments were originally intended to exclude women from autonomy and leadership , both in the political and in the ecclesiastical realms . |
| 21 | I think it is fairly obvious that erm the Test Act here erm was erm intended to exclude Catholics from holding public office . |
| 22 | The information held under the data class of warning signals is intended to indicate individuals who may possess firearms , may possess weapons , may resort to violent behaviour , may attempt to escape , may suffer from mental disorder , may possess explosives , may make false allegations against the police , may be a hazard to others as a carrier of contagious diseases ( e.g. , hepatitis ) ’ — |
| 23 | Subsequent reports , citing Interior Ministry officials , indicated that the Iraqi landing was intended to retrieve weapons and ammunition abandoned after Iraq 's defeat in the Gulf War [ see pp. 37982-86 ] . |
| 24 | René Théodore , designated as Prime minister under the Washington accord , called on Haitians to put pressure on the military government to force its resignation , and on April 13 the Congress rejected a proposal by the C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Raoul Cédras , for a " national conference " ostensibly intended to find ways to restore stability . |
| 25 | Each component of the partition is a cluster , and the algorithm is intended to find clusters which are as far apart as possible . |
| 26 | In allowing farmers to plant certain crops such as soya beans and wheat without losing existing government support , the bill was intended to encourage farmers to plant crops in response to market demand rather than government incentive . |
| 27 | It was intended to encourage students to make self-assessments and to keep a record of their own progress . |
| 28 | The activity is also intended to encourage students to see literary texts as a valuable means of providing insights into the subtleties of linguistic form and function . |
| 29 | The questions given above under " Groupwork " are intended to encourage trainees to look for evidence as to the effectiveness of the technique and the teacher 's use of it . |
| 30 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |