Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] want [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Lawson rightly wanted to join the exchange rate mechanism two years ago — as did Sir Geoffrey Howe . |
| 2 | Some Italian once wrote that the critic secretly wants to kill the writer . |
| 3 | He noted that the Clinton administration apparently wanted to make the drops in the dark , from high altitudes and without ground support , ‘ so the likelihood is that a lot of the supplies will end up outside the targeted area . ’ |
| 4 | Readers simply wanting to get the system working should disregard the next four paragraphs . |
| 5 | Every employee occasionally wants to know the answer to this question . |
| 6 | Sharpe only wanted to reach the road . |
| 7 | The committee sensibly want to remove the child from crown court trials , but their solution of prelimi nary hearings is questionable . |
| 8 | Trainer Lord Huntingdon said : ‘ The Queen so wanted to win the race again that we originally had two in it , but we took Piquant out and relied on Set The Fashion . |
| 9 | No one in Iceland ever wanted to cross the Circle he said , except for one man , the vicar of Grimsey . |
| 10 | Coun. David Walsh , chairman of the environment , development and transportation committee , said the county council now wanted to see the bypass going ahead , using the best design , construction and landscaping standards possible . |
| 11 | For all his doubts and self-irony , Palomar still wants to penetrate the secrets of the world and , to this end , what is seen acts only as a means of activating the thoughtfulness of language . |
| 12 | If the community really wants to tackle the problems of alcohol abuse it merely has to encourage the government to push up the cost of alcohol beyond the point of everyday affordability . |
| 13 | If governments really want to shatter the world economy , January 1991 would be an unusually good time to start . |
| 14 | The DFG originally wanted to allow the fellowships to run indefinitely until the researcher obtained a permanent post , but the government imposed a time limit of five years . |
| 15 | Harold now wants to find the town which he can reward with the title the Mensa Mind trophy as the Easter Eggheads of Great Britain . |
| 16 | The thirty officers working on the case urgently want to trace the mystery caller . |
| 17 | The forces of property development always wanted to structure the terms by which the city became again a safe investment location for capital . |
| 18 | If the IRB truly wanted to develop the game worldwide , it would consolidate FIRA under one international body , make all rugby-playing nations full members and it would apply to the International Olympic Committee to get rugby included in the Summer Olympics . |
| 19 | In considering products , it is important to note that people generally want to acquire the benefits of the product , rather than its features . |
| 20 | Here is an example of a problem in criminal law where the examiner clearly wanted to confine the facts to a narrow compass . |
| 21 | Clwyd particularly wants to tackle the problem of people waiting over three months for outpatient appointments , and the few who are still waiting over 18 months for in-patient treatment . |
| 22 | Mr Bouez said Lebanon still wanted to see the implementation of a UN resolution demanding Israel immediately take back nearly 400 Palestinians deported to southern Lebanon . |
| 23 | Britain and France both want to maintain the authority of national parliaments and governments . |
| 24 | It is likely that Yoshida also wanted to obviate the possibility of the Soviet Union making a proposal linked with the fate of Sakhalin and the southern Kurils . |
| 25 | There was some media speculation that while the decision was made to protect foreign tourists , the government also wanted to secure the border against the infiltration of arms by Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38708 for details of Tuareg rebellion ] . |
| 26 | The poor man simply wanted to placate the fellow . |
| 27 | Churchill then wanted to coerce the owners into a national agreement and statutory arbitration . |
| 28 | The children usually want to play the game again . |
| 29 | The RSPCA also want to change the law which currently makes them wait until they see cruelty inflicted before they can prosecute . |
| 30 | Both the County Council and the '64 Company still want to rebuild the WHR from Pen-y-Mount , on the edge of Porthmadog , to Pont Creoser , near Beddgelert . |