Example sentences of "[that] [pron] intend [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was matter-of-fact , and filled the statement with medical data and statistics , adding an assurance that I intended to beat the bastard . |
| 2 | We distributed leaflets in the surrounding streets explaining that we intended to keep the caravan there for twenty-four hours as a protest against the Wilsons ' living conditions and calling for support . |
| 3 | ‘ This will confirm our fears that they intend to rip the soul out of student associations and the NUS , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ This will confirm our fears that they intend to rip the soul out of student associations and the NUS , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Although most presidents promise , on taking office , that they intend to re-establish the cabinet as a decision-making body , few seriously try . |
| 6 | On 23 April 1991 the Government announced that they intend to replace the community charge with a new ‘ council tax ’ . |
| 7 | Shaposhnikov and Lobov said in interviews that they intended to reduce the period of compulsory military service to 18 months , and to replace 80 per cent of the 15-member Defence Ministry Collegium . |
| 8 | Though serial numbers were issued to the Joyces , the identity books were not , since the family protested that it intended to leave the country for the United States in a few more days . |
| 9 | that it intended to terminate the Lease of its tramways and henceforth work them itself . |
| 10 | The British government has given the clearest signals yet that it intends to authorise the start-up of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) at Sellafield . |
| 11 | Ludwigshafen-based BASF AG says its magnetic recording media business was still losing money in the first quarter because pressure on selling prices remained strong ; the chemicals giant , which owns Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH , said that it intends to fight the pressure on its selling prices by continuing to cut its costs and by concentrating on its more profitable sectors . |
| 12 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 13 | SPD officials subsequently confirmed that he intended to remain the party 's candidate for chancellor in the federal elections scheduled for Dec. 2 . |
| 14 | Peter Walker , the Secretary of State for Wales , confirmed on March 4 that he intended to leave the government at a future point in order to be able to spend more time with his family ; it was subsequently announced on March 14 that he would be succeeded in late May by David Hunt , currently Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities , who would enter the Cabinet for the first time . |
| 15 | Jack was puzzled at Johnnie 's sudden change in behaviour and although initially he reasoned that his colleague must be troubled with a domestic problem , he could not forget Johnnie 's parting words that he intended to leave the box for good . |
| 16 | I must say , it seems quite clear that he intended to kill the DO . |
| 17 | On Dec. 28 he announced that he intended to dedicate the remainder of his life to developing the party into a major political force . |
| 18 | He stated that he intended to visit the island in the near future in order to supervise the restoration of services and to ask remaining rebel units to surrender . |
| 19 | He said that he intended to retain the title of President during his forthcoming trial before the Senate , although on Oct. 5 the Supreme Court ruled that the new government must not extend any official privileges to him . |
| 20 | Following his appointment Lee immediately announced that he intended to close the DSC interrogation bureau , reduce the total number of intelligence agents and streamline the organization 's structure . |
| 21 | I acknowledge that Fish 's enterprise in [ his book ] Is There a Text in this Class ? , unlike Joyce 's in Finnegans Wake , makes it so unlikely that he intended to call the word ‘ pleasurably' an ‘ adverb' that I 'd feel bound — if I were his executor and he dead — to change it . |
| 22 | Collor announced that US$100 million of the $120,000 million foreign debt would be converted annually in " debt for nature swaps " to fund environmental protection , and that he intended to decree the abolition of tax incentives for land clearance and cattle ranching in the Amazon . |
| 23 | Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police . |