Example sentences of "[pron] be intend [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Q I am intending to make some garments as Christmas present for the family .
2 Clearly more weight attaches to the principal administrative and economic factors : the development of general hospital treatment and primary care which are intended to replace mental hospitals , and the search for more cost-effective alternatives to state hospital provision .
3 There are also chairs that you can buy , designed by a chiropractor , which are intended to put less strain on the body when sitting .
4 Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary .
5 CPRW is a well established national organisation and the only voluntary body concerned with strategies for Wales as a whole which are intended to protect Welsh heritage , its countryside and the quality of life of its people .
6 De Gaulle used the extraordinary powers granted to him in June to introduce a set of major economic measures , which were intended to remedy these problems and to show France and the world that a state worthy of the name was now in charge .
7 The second key component in the RAWP procedure consists of an adjustment which is intended to represent regional differentials in need for each service .
8 Large-scale empirical work which is intended to provide new information based on reliable data .
9 Denton has classified the various forms of aid to industry under three headings : general incentives provided under various programmes to all industrial firms in all parts of the country ; industrial restructuring which again is universal in scope and geographical area and which is intended to encourage industrial efficiency ; and regional aid which is limited to firms in the deprived regions of the country .
10 However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’
11 OSI was established as a direct rival to IBM 's systems network architecture ( SNA ( which was intended to allow all IBM machines to talk to each other , while locking out non-SNA equipment .
12 The grand alliance favoured a new set of standards called open systems interconnection ( OSI ) , which was intended to allow all types of computer in the world to talk to each other within any kind of network .
13 They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on .
14 THE Social Fund — which was intended to target social security on the poorest — has failed , according to a report published today .
15 It is designed for those who are intending to work several days per week in a bureau , but whose expected term as workers in the CAB might be short .
16 The latter will help specify how you are intending to reach each aim .
17 general letter to the police saying that we 're intending to do these surveys , just putting them in the picture and put a note in that erm once , you know , dates and whatever , you know , we 'll give you further details as and when we know
18 They rotated at 120rpm , and they were intended to allow louder reproduction , not increased fidelity or playing-time .
19 It is intended to foster greater appreciation of the complex and contentious issues associated with research in this and other controversial areas .
20 As such , it is intended to draw wider lessons about the workings of pressure groups in modern Britain .
21 It is intended to reassure key figures in Hong Kong that they have a ‘ safety net ’ and need not emigrate elsewhere if relations with China do not improve as the 1997 handover approaches .
22 It is intended to reassure key figures in Hong Kong that they have a ‘ safety net ’ and need not emigrate elsewhere if relations with China do not improve as the 1997 handover approaches .
23 Consequently , it is intended to acquire inflected versions of the above collocation dictionaries and compare these with their lemmatised equivalents ( using the same text recognition data ) .
24 Although it is intended to charge actual staff costs , including incentive allowances , National Insurance , pensions and other costs , to the school 's budget , the formula by which the school 's finances are allocated does not take this into account .
25 It is intended to update this listing on a regular basis .
26 ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit .
27 It is intended to compare two schemes to identifycorresponding differences in typical experiences , problems and relations with and effects on the wider community .
28 It is intended to compare these costs with tax revenue ; to examine their incidence ; and to identify the particular areas and causes of high compliance costs .
29 An analysis already exists of the migration patterns of 1974 and it is intended to make direct comparisons between this and the 1983 results .
30 It is intended to make detailed case-studies , over two years , of three educational institutions : one each from further education , polytechnic and university sectors , chosen to reflect the diversity of cultures and structures in post-compulsory education and on the basis of their explicit intention to implement equal opportunities policies .
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