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 . |