The phrase "intention of completing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are explaining intentions involving the completion of something. For example: "I had every intention of completing the task on time, but I ran into a few complications."
Others, however, may begin courses with the firm intention of completing them but get derailed by life's other demands.
Only, as he blithely confesses, he had not the slightest intention of completing the work anytime soon, nor was he planning a simple afternoon at the movies.
If you have started a master's or doctoral program at another university, you cannot transfer classes or research credit with the intention of completing that degree at MIT.
And I long ago arrived at the conclusion that the Istanbul Bid Committee is like some Soviet Ministry for Paperclips: a self-perpetuating bureaucracy that struts toward the finish line with no intention of completing the race.
In a recent study, Piech and two colleagues examined three of Stanford's computer-science MOOCs and found that dropouts fell into three distinct groups: "auditors," who had no intention of completing the course but who used it as a resource, like a book; students who participated in the course but gradually fell behind; and those who sporadically "sampled" throughout the course.
We have every intention of completing something, but we convince ourselves that it's OK to do it later.
I believe that the Palestinians are entitled to their own state, but backing Prime Minister Ehud Barak's intentions of completing a peace deal by reinforcing him politically and diplomatically may be a better way to achieve that.
Figure 2 displays a large range of probabilities of intention to complete and associated probabilities of completion.
Patients with other histologic diagnoses were not included, and all patients were treated with the intention of complete cytoreduction and HIPEC.
In our analysis, complete metastasectomy was defined as a surgical procedure following the intention of complete resection (even if the surgical outcome finally was an incomplete resection) of all clinically or radiographic suspect lesions.
"But I don't think I ever had any real intention of actually completing the course," he says.
