Example sentences of "intention of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quelch and Hoff , however , consider Coca Cola 's tight global marketing co-ordination is driven principally by the intention of capitalising on the company 's marketing ideas rather than potential economies of scale . |
| 2 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 3 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 4 | If you take a degree in English Literature or International Relations , you will do so with the intention of learning about the subject . |
| 5 | Just as war began the Communist Party had published a short pamphlet How to Win the War , which outlined the Party 's continued opposition to fascism and its intention of participating in the war effort . |
| 6 | I can assure you that I have no intention of straying into the question of the location of the headquarters of Caledonian MacBrayne . |
| 7 | On Aug. 15 itself some 3,000 riot police clashed with 10,000 dissidents who had gathered at Yonsei University in western Seoul with the intention of marching to the Panmunjom rally . |
| 8 | The balls of course would not stay put , and followed their pirouetting owners down to the front of the stage , with every intention of dropping into the auditorium . |
| 9 | However , there is no intention of dealing with the question of long-waves . |
| 10 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 11 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 12 | The Moderator intimated his intention of conducting during the winter a singing class in connection with the congregation for the practice of the Psalter and Hymnary . |
| 13 | When his father realised that Christian had no intention of returning to the family estate in Oxfordshire , and breeding prime Herefordshire cattle for the rest of his life , he gave him a small capital sum and washed his hands of him . |
| 14 | She had no intention of returning to the house in a hurry . |
| 15 | By late afternoon she realised he had no intention of returning to the office while she was in it , and she had a strong suspicion that he did not trust her . |
| 16 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 17 | But unbeknown to Ivor , Stroud had no intention of parting with the money . |
| 18 | Griffiths , 40 , told police that he had no intention of paying for the goods which came from Littlewoods Catalogues , John Moores Catalogues , Empire Stores , Readers Digest and other companies . |
| 19 | We have no intention of interfering with the conduct of your business . ’ |
| 20 | As for President elect Clinton 's oblique references to the asylum laws , one can only assume his administration will have no intention of interfering with the due processes of law in the US . |
| 21 | The sentence had no effect on Barry 's eligibility to complete his current term ( due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 ) or to fulfil his stated intention of standing for the city council elections on Nov. 6 . |
| 22 | And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no ! |
| 23 | I had no idea what I was looking for and certainly no intention of starting on the filing cabinets . |
| 24 | This was utter nonsense from a communist point of view and neither Ceauşescu nor Brezhnev had any intention of abiding by the terms of the Helsinki agreement , but its value to them lay in its public announcement to the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that the West had abandoned them to their fate . |
| 25 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 26 | I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks . |
| 27 | They will take initiative for the sake of ‘ the poor and needy strangers ’ , namely those outside the church who have no intention of going near the institutional church . |
| 28 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 29 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've no intention of coming into the palazzo at this time of night . ’ |