Example sentences of "wants [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swoon director Tom Kalin — he wants to seduce the whole nation with his New Queer Cinema |
| 2 | We said that if the revolution is victorious in Russia and a republican government comes to power which wants to continue the imperialist war in alliance with the imperialist bourgeoisie of England and France , a war for the conquest of Constantinople , Armenia , Galicia , and so on and so forth , then we will be decided opponents of such a government , we will be against " 'the defence of the Fatherland " " in such a war . |
| 3 | Another and at least equally powerful strand says no , because it wants to emphasise the distinctive value of women 's insights , and also the special bond of sisterhood which is seen as binding women together , rather than letting them be absorbed and assimilated into he wider human group . |
| 4 | CPRW wants to see the new generation of structure and local plans conforming to government advice on sustainable development ( 1 ) . |
| 5 | She wants to see the other guy 's thing . |
| 6 | So we thought , first the Caribbean for a couple of weeks , then , later in the year , your mother quite wants to see the Great Wall of China before she 's too old . |
| 7 | The Director of Swaziland 's Curriculum Research and Development Unit at Manzini must motor miles to Mbabane if he wants to see the Chief Education Officer . |
| 8 | Richards , who has just completed his first year as the Welsh Rugby Union development officer for Mid-Wales , wants to see the representative side going from strength to strength . |
| 9 | in the process of revision one wants to see the semantic net and see the linear form repeatedly . |
| 10 | In certain running-down cases , however , a defendant should be asked to make discovery ( eg latent defect cases , where the plaintiff may want to see all his maintenance and servicing records ; accidents alleged to have been caused by sudden and unexpected illness or death , where the plaintiff wants to see the medical records ; and of course claims in nuisance against highway authorities and their contractors , where discovery can often reveal breaches of prescribed safety codes and bad accident records ) . |
| 11 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
| 12 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 13 | ‘ Dedicated to making Vale No. 1 team in the Potteries , Bill also wants to find the Lost City of Atlantis , be first man to walk the Channel , and skateboard up Everest . ’ |
| 14 | The engineer wants to know the simple answer to the question " how much load will this structure or piece of material take before it deforms irrevocably by yield or by fracture ? " |
| 15 | He wo n't be put off with a surface answer , but he wants to know the far end of everything ’ |
| 16 | The government wants to set the new system to work from January 1 . |
| 17 | The government wants to set the technical standards of Poland 's public network and to retain the power to set ceilings on consumer prices . |
| 18 | Then someone else wants to buy the same book — what do you do ? |
| 19 | Valerie Welham wants to buy the empty building and run the school with a government grant . |
| 20 | Everyone wants to win the First Divisiocn championship . |
| 21 | You get the feeling that if he wants to play the hard-assed producer , he can . |
| 22 | After dinner , the person at the top of the list is offered first choice of all the hotel water and selects where he wants to fish the following day . |
| 23 | IF Major wants to make his mark he wants to fire the damn Treasury . |
| 24 | He wants to suggest the exclusive nature of that subliminal world — to dwell there , and to forget the conscious world . |
| 25 | If the Prime Minister really wants to help the British people , he should use Maastricht to give us a system which will promote balanced regional economic development throughout the United Kingdom , attack some of the social ills and divisions which beset British society at present and , finally , enhance not detract from the quality of British democracy . |
| 26 | The line wants to use the 1888 Glasgow International Exhibition Machinery Hall building . |
| 27 | Cos he wants to use the other five hundred |
| 28 | If each member of the legislature who votes for a checkerboard compromise does so not because he himself has no principles but because he wants to give the maximum possible effect to the principles he thinks right , then how has anyone behaved irresponsibly ? |
| 29 | Romany King 's trainer Toby Balding wants to give the improving eight-year-old an easy build-up to the National . |
| 30 | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . ’ |