Example sentences of "we wish [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — We wish to respond to the correspondence concerning our report on decreasing semen quality . |
| 2 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 3 | Also we need to consider the flying leads which we wish to take from the board and hook up to external switches , indicators etc . |
| 4 | Unger quotes Russell , ‘ uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful , but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of fairy tales ’ ( 1983 : 29 ) . |
| 5 | We wish to return to the scheme which was operated and was intended to operate until the Home Secretary made his statement on 2 July . |
| 6 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 7 | Throughout all our travails we have always known we wished to stay in the business which is the repository of our Organic Chemical skills and has been the parent of many of our best operations . |