Example sentences of "be intended [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damages in libel cases are intended generally to compensate the plaintiff for loss of face , and specifically for any loss of work or earnings which can be proved to have been suffered as a result of the libel . |
| 2 | Our product guides , for instance , are intended mainly to inform the reader about the range of products on the market . |
| 3 | Thus proposals in the White Paper ( DHSS , 1985b ) were intended instead to reduce the cost of the SERP scheme . |
| 4 | In the late 1980s , a number of industrial initiatives were announced that were intended specifically to assist the older urban cores ( DoE and DE , 1987 ; DTI , 1988 ; HMSO , 1988a ) . |
| 5 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 6 | This division is intended only to simplify the analysis and should not be taken to imply that the aggregate level of unemployment in a country can readily be divided into completely separate and distinguishable categories . |
| 7 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 8 | It is a matter of construction of the contract and the surrounding circumstances as to whether the prohibition is intended merely to place the vendor in breach of contract and exposed to a claim for damages or whether the prohibition is intended to render the assignment ineffective and make it clear that the contract is personal . |
| 9 | Public outrage over the deaths of millions of dolphins in the 1960s prompted the introduction of a Marine Mammals Protection Act ( MMPA ) by the US in 1972 , which was intended primarily to address the problem of dolphin kills in the tuna fishery . |
| 10 | He asked if Hall had forgotten that it was intended eventually to extend the new buildings as far as Great George Street where they would be seen with the Abbey and the Palace of Westminster . |