Example sentences of "intents [coord] [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The priests had followed one of two paths : those who took the full vows of celibacy and poverty provided the staff at the houses dedicated to training the young priests ; and those who , after their training , became associates and went into the parishes , to all intents and purposes no different from priests trained elsewhere .
2 In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee .
3 That fact makes the chip for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp Windows NT engine .
4 Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race .
5 To all intents and purposes a newborn human baby is helpless .
6 ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child .
7 The fact that by the early eighteenth century the Whigs had become to all intents and purposes a Court party , whilst the Tories were increasingly associated with Country concerns , also helps explain the relative shift in the support base for the two parties .
8 Under William and Anne a certain degree of ideological adjustment can be detected for both parties , as the Whigs shed their Country wing and became to all intents and purposes a Court party , whilst the Country platform came to be absorbed within Toryism .
9 Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family .
10 The office of Earl Marshal was to all intents and purposes the heritable property of the Howard family , although it was lost to them for several decades after the attainder of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in 1572 .
11 The general understanding was that to all intents and purposes the State would now be responsible for the nation 's housing stock — its quality , quantity and distribution .
12 In any case , the clear separation of the Bank from all others was well enough indicated by Lord North in 1781 when he referred to it as " a part of the constitution " and " to all intents and purposes the public exchequer " .
13 To all intents and purposes the parish would still have a vicar but he can not refuse to move elsewhere , ’ she said .
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