Example sentences of "[be] intended [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 2 | Britain 's small businessmen , who are the store 's intended customers , are not ready for the American concept , Nielson believes . |
| 3 | Rosing , known for playing his cards close to his vest , declined to discuss specific products or the company 's intended customers . |
| 4 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 5 | It should result in a clear statement of that practice area 's intended position in the marketplace and how it can differentiate itself from its competitors . |
| 6 | The trouble with having lived in the Middle East for a year or two is that , wherever one goes , one is bound to run into acquaintances ; and that means drinks at the nearest bar , and more acquaintances , and finally the complete derangement of one 's intended programme , and great loss of time . |
| 7 | The Minister of State at the Scottish Office on British Steel 's intended programme of capacity cuts in Scotland : |
| 8 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 9 | I thought that this was a most extraordinary conversation to be having about one 's intended groom , but I was feeling lighter . |
| 10 | Throwing his left arm high , he presented his rigid forearm to the open jaws of the leaping Satan , offering it as an alternative target to the beast 's intended throat-rip . |
| 11 | Can Lord Wellworthy enforce the covenant made with Lord Sloane against Mr Sly and prevent Mr Sly 's intended use of Ramsden Manor as a country club ? |
| 12 | Some of the designs are imported , others are composed in the factories by stylists — either an original design or one based on a specific order or according to the article 's intended market . |
| 13 | Often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child 's intended meaning or elaborated so that new but related information is added . |
| 14 | Examples included direct imitation , expansion of the child 's utterance into a phrase or sentence which captures the child 's intended meaning , extensions which include a novel contribution , and recastings in which the child 's meaning is reflected back in a different syntactical form ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 15 | The lower-level subskills involved in word recognition can become automatised through practice , and this is necessary so that the reader 's mind can be left free to attempt alternate integrations in order to calculate the writer 's intended meaning . |
| 16 | The use of strategies to interpret problematic utterances appears to be incompatible with coming to understand that a verbal message may not provide adequate information about the speaker 's intended meaning . |
| 17 | This project examines some of the circumstances in which young children are prepared to abandon the implicit working assumption that the speaker 's intended meaning can be identified on the basis of the verbal message given . |
| 18 | Dr Kumar said he had found almost every shopworker he had spoken to in Langbaurgh was earning less than Labour 's intended minimum of £3.40 per hour . |
| 19 | Dr Kumar said he had found almost every shopworker he had spoken to in Langbaurgh was earning less than Labour 's intended minimum of £3.40 per hour . |
| 20 | The effect of this is that the finance company would be regarded as knowing what its agent knows , namely that the proposal form does not represent the customer 's intended offer . |
| 21 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 22 | After referring to textbooks on the subject and to cases referring to clerical errors in other contexts , Mr Evans-Lombe said that the term ‘ clerical error ’ in s 20(1) ( a ) meant an error made in the process of recording the testator 's intended words in the drafting or transcription of the will . |
| 23 | We seek to identify the writer 's intended referent for a pronoun , since a pronoun can , in effect , be used to refer to almost anything . |