Example sentences of "[pron] intention [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their intention was to improve national literacy and technical skills : the provision of an educational ladder for brighter working-class children would increase the pool of highly-skilled manpower . |
| 2 | Their intention was to close 31 pits immediately , and leave a coal industry of about 20 pits and opencast at its present level . |
| 3 | Their intention was to treat each case on its merits rather than reproduce the traditional left-right divide in British politics . |
| 4 | Not until dark , since his intention was to search that patch of ground thoroughly . |
| 5 | Our intention was to fly low level VFR into French airspace , climb onto airways VFR , then , as we were expecting to catch up a cold front around Limoges , refile IFR and continue to our destination expecting an IFR approach with a reported cloud base of 600 to 800 ft . |