Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] intention [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the conclusion of the trial , lawyers for Kingsley 's mother announced their intention to appeal against the ruling to the 5th District Court of Appeals in Florida . |
| 2 | Mrs Kinnock , 47 , last month announced her intention to stand for the 1994 European Parliament elections in the South East Wales constituency . |
| 3 | She seemed happy , though , and announced her intention to stay in the forest with her new family . |
| 4 | In March 1947 , the Government announced its intention to round off the social service provision that had been made by the National Insurance and National Health Service Acts of 1946 , by introducing legislation to break up the poor law , and to introduce a comprehensive system of national assistance . |
| 5 | On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property . |
| 6 | Yesterday TWA signalled its intention to step into the gap . |
| 7 | The largest party in the League of Free Democrats electoral alliance , the LDP had the day before renamed itself and declared its intention to merge with the West German free democrat FDP , if possible by the end of 1990 . |
| 8 | Defeated presidential candidates Ion Ratiu ( Christian Democratic National Peasants ' Party — CDNPP ) and Radu Campeanu ( National Liberal Party — NLP ) listed irregularities in the process and complained that the campaign had been waged in an atmosphere of violence ; both , however , stated their intention to participate in the new parliament . |
| 9 | On May 8 Martin Shikuku , interim secretary-general of the party , declared his intention to stand for the presidency . |
| 10 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 11 | NATO proposed to the Warsaw Treaty states a joint declaration " in which we solemnly state that we are no longer adversaries and reaffirm our intention to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state or from acting in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and with the CSCE [ Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ] Final Act . |
| 12 | The former National Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon , also an outspoken opponent of free market economics , was offered several minor posts outside the Cabinet , but turned them all down as " insulting " and expressed his intention to remain on the back benches , from where he would be free to criticize the new government . |
| 13 | The government had earlier made known its intention to repeal in the course of 1991 the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts which reserved more than 80 per cent of South Africa 's land for whites . |
| 14 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 15 | Nineteen companies have indicated their intention to bid for the contract to computerise Hungary 's tax system , with three more companies expected to join the fray in the next few days . |
| 16 | It has announced its intention to co-sponsor with the USA a UN resolution imposing an indefinite moratorium on the use of drift nets from the end of 1992 . |
| 17 | Despite the setback , Lacalle announced his intention to continue with the privatization programme within the next two years . |
| 18 | Contract Director , Bill Freeman , who recently announced his intention to retire at the end of the year , started his carpet career with Stoddard in 1956 . |
| 19 | On the following day , while visiting the McDonnell Douglas plant near St Louis , Missouri , he announced his intention to proceed with the sale of 72 F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia which would guarantee thousands of jobs at the plant . |