Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
| 2 | ‘ We want to help people in a similar situation to us. ’ said Mr Grainger of Crosby . |
| 3 | ‘ We want to help people in a similar situation to us , ’ said Mr Grainger , of Crosby , Merseyside . |
| 4 | Germany 's newly regrouped aerospace industry wants to give birth to a new jet aircraft . |
| 5 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 6 | Of course , integrated programmes are less suitable for part-time attendees and those who want to do parts of a modular programme . |
| 7 | I must confess that I find this deeply attractive , and I want to draw attention to a few Bible passages where I think this idea is being worked out . |
| 8 | Gerard Fusil , a French radio journalist , suffers the same insatiable affliction as Francoise , along with hundreds of other amateurs who want to cheat death with a dramatic natural backdrop , but his connections within the French media gave him the chance to create an annual event to satisfy even the most daredevil adventurer . |
| 9 | Great Britain Ltd want to mine pyrites on a large scale . |
| 10 | In recent years prosecutions have been thin on the ground , but the problem still exists — and the authorities want to market London as a spotless international financial centre . |
| 11 | They want to turn Sberbank from a dowdy savings bank into a universal bank that can compete with the likes of Germany 's Deutsche Bank . |
| 12 | After you have started Word and if you want to save files to a floppy disk in drive B : |
| 13 | In general this only a problem if you want to change leads with a weaker climber . |
| 14 | If you want to get hold of a specific back issue of the magazine , contact our Back Issues department on or write to them at |
| 15 | If you want to take part in a future coaching session run by , as mentioned above , please drop a line to . |
| 16 | I want to take part in a few more races next year and you 'll never hear of a plump jockey winning races . ’ |
| 17 | When the Left want to take control of a particular constituency , they look at its controlling group and note that over a six-month period the maximum number of people attending the decision-making meetings is never more than ( say ) twenty-seven . |
| 18 | The support group wants to take part in a sitting service to give carers a break . |
| 19 | It is made worse because the Opposition understandably wants to take advantage of a Prime Minister who seems dangerously , if not fatally , wounded . |
| 20 | There was good reason for this : when Government ministers want to test opinion in a particular sector , they normally turn to a single trade body , such as the National Farmers Union , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , or the Retail Consortium . |
| 21 | On the whole , people are divided into those who want to make room for a serious collection and those who want to use wall space to its most decorative advantage . |
| 22 | They want to recruit people with a sympathetic and ‘ unruffled ’ nature , nursing expertise is not essential . |
| 23 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 24 | Tektronix expects its X terminals emulating the 3270 to be hugely successful with users wanting to replace terminals with a windowed environment without the pain of retraining staff on a new system . |
| 25 | The truth was that Mauve only wanted to spend time on a large painting of sailing barges which he was getting ready for an exhibition . |
| 26 | you may want to get advice from a local helping agency . |
| 27 | It makes me want to bring sanity into an insane land . |
| 28 | A councillor member of a housing committee wanted to see information in a social services file on prospective adopting parents as she doubted their suitability as adopters . |
| 29 | Assuming a 10 per cent escalation a year in school fees , if you wanted to provide fees for a new-born infant in thirteen years ’ time , you would have to invest £200 a month in a Personal Equity Plan ( PEP ) . |
| 30 | Many of the early sociologists were anxious about the social changes occurring around them and wanted to establish sociology as a comprehensive scientific discipline , charged with discovering sociological laws of behaviour and constructing social policy based on these laws . |