Example sentences of "not intend as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 ‘ It 's a long way to go for a 45-minute service and a reception — even if you 're not 92 years old , ’ said one of her aides , who insisted that her absence was not intended as a snub .
2 The charges are not intended as a pollution tax per se , although the NRA acknowledges that they may cause some businesses to review polluting activities .
3 Halpin ( 1980 ) , for example , questions their similarity with the APU lines of development which , because they were tentatively suggested , were specifically not intended as a curriculum model .
4 Although Symphonic Variations was not intended as a ritual , Ashton can be said to have used it as such for six dancers who were practising their art in the spacious simplicity of Sophie Fedorovitch 's décor .
5 The surprises of God are not intended as a substitute for strategy .
6 This invariably only occurs when the mulch is allowed to pack and remain undisturbed — mulching is not intended as a boon to lazy gardening by putting an end to the need for hoeing .
7 It is not intended as a guide to the relative merits of competing products — Which ? magazine , with its comparative testing reports , fills that role — but rather as a guide to the tools , materials and techniques needed for home plumbing and to the various plumbing jobs around the home , including the installation of central heating .
8 The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate .
9 This book is not intended as a textbook of theories , so there will be no detailed exegetical analysis of each one .
10 Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents .
11 The console is not intended as a pattern storage system .
12 It appears from the context that this is not intended as a limitation on the use of ‘ judicial channels ’ but rather as a preliminary observation before a specific provision that in such border cases legalization is not required .
13 They are presented in order to illustrate some similarities and differences in the way the Cockcroft recommendations are being interpreted in relation to assessment and are not intended as a review of all the initiatives currently being undertaken .
14 The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep .
15 Nick 's stiffness was not intended as a rebuff ; it was simply an instinctive reaction to the sentimental concern in Martin 's voice .
16 It was not long before the Princess proved that her patronage was not intended as a sinecure .
17 It is not intended as a source of support for the committed student .
18 In the March 1989 issue of Digest , Seitz posed the question , ‘ Is Greg Norman Overrated ? ’ replaced Jeff Sluman 's name with the like of Alf Padgham ( which I 'm sure was not intended as an insult to the Padgham family ) and concluded that Norman was , indeed , overrated — ‘ for now ’ .
19 It is not intended as an effort at resolving these debates : my objectives are specific and political — they are to do with action .
20 It is not intended as an explanation of linguistic communication , a theory we might proceed to test .
  Next page