Example sentences of "it wished [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its expressed view , that the Uprising was part of that violence which the United States now wished the PLO to bring to an end , indicated it wished to eliminate the source of the new political reality , against which it had laboured so long through its preference for negotiations through Jordan . |
| 2 | The military government was in the position where it wished to sustain the south Korean rightists , who now repudiated it and pursued an independent path . |
| 3 | Secondly , it wished to mount a national campaign to force the National government to allow the Spanish Government to buy arms . |
| 4 | When you heard me I was imagining a process whereby you 'd have a strategic sites policy in the structure plan which would enable a local authority in preparing its local plan if it wished to identify a strategic site and that would then become in the local plan , you know subject to all those consultation processes , and then it 's part of the portfolio that is available in the published arena with a statutory framework behind it . |
| 5 | The result was that the board was confined to the business of handling ships and cargo but required ministerial consent if , for example , it wished to develop the land attached to the sites . |
| 6 | Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money . |
| 7 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 8 | At Alcatel a spokesman reiterated the firm 's stated position on SGS-Thomson , that it wished to maintain a relationship of customer-supplier . |
| 9 | In the short term , there are various measures that would be open to the government if it wished to reduce the impact of the community charge . |