Example sentences of "[modal v] want [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers may want to use this information for reference in the case of individual pupils with visual defects or to study it in order to increase their general understanding of the implications of visual handicaps in learning . |
| 2 | Good idea to have a list of all the file names , cos er , you may want to copy this system to some other computer . |
| 3 | they may want to start some day . |
| 4 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 5 | I may want to recognize this pattern as well as that pattern . |
| 6 | If you 're faced with a slippery floor problem , it is inexpensive these days to get exhibition contractors to supply some cheap carpeting and you may want to investigate this option . |
| 7 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 8 | ‘ Even so , I 'm sure they 'll want to take that chance . |
| 9 | The auctioneer came to me , Oh I suppose you 'll want to borrow some money now . |
| 10 | You 'll want to have some time on your own with him . ’ |
| 11 | And then if you want to read some literature and talk about some of the things which Once you 've said what questions you want to ask you 'll want to read some stuff You 've either read a lot of it already , the stuff you 've done today is useful , and do a bit of your essay saying , This is what the literature says , so we did an experiment to test this aspect and here 's the results we found , let's discuss this . |
| 12 | And of course you 'll want to meet each other before the thing is finalised . |
| 13 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 14 | You know I might want to do some training which is n does n't necess |
| 15 | Here are four senses in which this is true and which do not apply to the atoms studied in physics or chemistry , even if biologists might want to use some concept of meaning when thinking about animals . |
| 16 | One of the properties of a context is a specification of what to do on a what-you-see save : the user might want to record some indication that the context was there . |
| 17 | product , we 've just got one row for one product at the moment but in the future you might want to insert another row and er the product B and then all I would need to do is just copy the formula down and I know it would work cos I made it copyable down as well . |
| 18 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure he 'd want to help any way he can , but I do n't rightly see — ’ |
| 20 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 21 | No sane person would want to kill this baby when there is every chance that it will survive and be part of a loving family . |
| 22 | Even a detractor of Caro would want to own this book just for the photography . |
| 23 | Despite this , however , I would want to resist any notion that culture has a primacy here , and it 's worth recording , I think , the unfortunate trend , especially in the United States , to a textual feminism , in which social and historical issues are increasingly obscured . |
| 24 | It fails to put forward any options for accept for erm , equal rights , for disability or race , and we think this is an omission , and if it were your intention to write a response , we would want to include that point in the response we make . |
| 25 | Jean-Claude had warned me that Otto would want to spend some time at the gastronomic festival being held in Romorantin . |
| 26 | ‘ If we move to London , become bigger , when we come back we would want to play this place but there 's the danger that the manager is not going to pay us more than a hundred quid because we only draw a certain crowd … |
| 27 | To tell them Goering was coming — well Halifax , or Cadogan , or Vansittart , anyone would want to hear that news . |
| 28 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 29 | Clearly , managers with good information about the firm will want to transmit that information to the market , while managers with bad information might want to conceal it and might also be tempted to transmit false ‘ good ’ information to the market . |
| 30 | Mada Madam Speaker my honourable friend knows well that the purpose er of what has been said and what is being considered about air strikes er is to is is to bring about er the er cessation of the sort of bombardment that we have seen in Sarajevo and I think everybody will want to see that effort successfully er completed . |