Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] want [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants as well as the Serious Fraud Office wanted to see more of the documents , but the liquidators objected on the ground that the transcripts were not material evidence within the definition of section 2(2) of the Criminal Procedure ( Attendance of Witnesses ) Act 1965 . |
| 2 | The Home Office wants to prevent any repetition of last week 's incident when two Kurds facing deportation from Heathrow Airport set fire to their room at the nearby Harmondsworth Detention Centre . |
| 3 | The Department of Health wants to place more of them in community care , while the Home Office wants to place more of them in secure accommodation . |
| 4 | The Milk Marketing Board wants to improve that situation . |
| 5 | Now , The Body Shop wants to start another project to update a hospital for the terminally ill in Sculeni , near the Russian border , and has launched a fresh appeal to this end . |
| 6 | The National Coal Board wanted to close some uneconomic pits and their advice was that this could be achieved by local talks . |
| 7 | Roo Management wanted to put these rooms to intensive use throughout the day and in these circumstances it was clear that the contents could not remain . |
| 8 | The party leadership wanted to ban all strikes because it is terrified of an upsurge in Russian and Ukrainian working-class militancy which , it correctly realises , could be more dangerous to the regime than all the ethnic disturbances of the last few years combined . |
| 9 | Rejoining the train , I was confronted by a South Australian fruit-fly inspector wanting to confiscate any Western Australian fruit . |
| 10 | Thank you sir erm in that the government and the opposition front bench want to move this measure erm fulfilling their commitments to the Maastricht treaty , I accept the methodology and the precedent that the government cites , I think that 's appropriate , erm I just wanted to very briefly say that this is of course a vote no longer like the generality of the population voting for the membership of a golf club in which we have varying degrees of er interest . |