Example sentences of "they want [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 2 | First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 3 | Councillors say grazing all year round is ruining the grass and they want to restrict the ancient rights of commoners . |
| 4 | They want to move the whole competition — lock , stock and barrel — out of the province entirely and turn in into the Jersey Milk Cup . |
| 5 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 6 | They want to regain the natural environments . |
| 7 | MPs will start debating these issues on the 17 of this month , two weeks before members of the old party have to make up their minds about whether they want to join the new ship . |
| 8 | If they want to climb the sheer slope , an I test ( Scale Sheer Surface +10 ) allows a character to head upwards D6+2 feet during the round ( only D6 for a Dwarf and D4 for a Halfling ) . |
| 9 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 10 | are only ten percent so why are you try why are you saying they want to get the rich peasants when the , the poor peasants comprise seventy percent of the peasant population ? |
| 11 | Either they want to conceal the real cause of death or they 're still alive . ’ |
| 12 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 13 | The supporters are not happy with that , they want to know the real truth and well , so do I in a way , because I do n't really know . |
| 14 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 15 | And they wanted to preserve the nationalized industries . |
| 16 | They wanted to continue the foster placement . |
| 17 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 18 | But the fact remained , the doctors were a different sort of person from the regular army officers ; they wanted to do the good works they did ; that they would have done it anyway , without being ordered , is my certain opinion . |
| 19 | ‘ If a breakaway Church of England was formed , they could be in communion with us , if they wanted to revive the apostolic succession . |
| 20 | They wanted to protect the public morality of the club , and wanted Docherty out . |
| 21 | In effect , they wanted to vary the experimental conditions enough to clarify the source of the heat and confirm if it was fusion . |