Example sentences of "we want [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 2 | We want to preserve the special character of our old town and city centres . |
| 3 | In this chapter , however , we want to adumbrate the principal features of the continuum view of non-linear viscoelasticity . |
| 4 | However , we want to take the right action , and to do so properly and comprehensively . |
| 5 | Immediately after the election Tino Schwierzina , the SPD mayor-elect of East Berlin , held a joint press conference with his West Berlin counterpart Walter Momper ( also SPD ) in which Momper asserted : " We want to join the two city administrations very quickly . " |
| 6 | ‘ We want to retain the key skills but fix the skill imbalance . |
| 7 | In this leaflet we want to explain the low risks that lesbians face from HIV and how to keep it that way by practising safer sex and safer drug use . |
| 8 | We want to give the private sector the opportunity to operate existing rail services and introduce new ones , for both passengers and freight . |
| 9 | Having said all that , we want to give the following assurances about our liability to you : — |
| 10 | We want to give the best possible hospital service in the nineteen nineties for our community , and that 's what we 're looking at . |
| 11 | If we want to support the United Nations in its role and in the reorganisations that we have suggested , it is essential that we vote the means for that as well as talking about it . |
| 12 | We want to restore the good image of football . |
| 13 | John Evans says : ‘ We 're very concerned about these abuses and we want to see the 1987 Consumer Protection Act stiffened . |
| 14 | " We want to see the Chief Rabbit , " said Hazel . |
| 15 | We want to see the British standard on vehicle security adopted as a compulsory European Community directive . |
| 16 | Thus we want to see the representational role of the newly juxtaposed elements as recognisably preserved within , and thereby helping to determine the new representational role of , the new signal in which they occur . |
| 17 | ‘ While there will be change , such as the combined LWT and Carlton news service , we want to create the right awareness at the beginning for a smooth transition from Thames to Carlton , ’ he adds . |
| 18 | We want to provide the best package and extend our services . ’ |
| 19 | We want to change the whole concept of how dance music is appreciated , so that people can see it for what it is . |
| 20 | No toilet paper , long queues , one cubicle … you know what we 're talking about , but now we want to know the best of the worst . |
| 21 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 22 | It certainly sounds my idea of Hell on Earth , with no alcohol being sold ( as in Fortress Wapping ) because , as the American organiser explained : ‘ We want to keep the Magic Kingdom magic . ’ |
| 23 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |
| 24 | We want to safeguard the special beauty of our countryside and make sure that it is not only pleasant to walk in but that it is safe too . |
| 25 | " Just as we used the tiger as a symbol to secure the protection of a huge diversity of habitats in India , so we want to achieve the same with the elephant in Africa " , Simon Lyster adds . |
| 26 | If we want to understand the current penal crisis we need to examine the way this discretion is exercised , its consequences for the rest of the penal system , and the reasons for the continuing failure over the years to subject it to more effective control . |
| 27 | The difference is that we are now offering a formal psychological model to suggest that if we want to reduce the current encapsulation of science , if we want to recruit a different sort of student , then certain curriculum changes are needed . |
| 28 | We want to catch the floating voters and show that a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote wasted as it would help put Mr Kinnock in at No 10 . ’ |
| 29 | Of course we want to ban the disgusting material , and the powers exist to do so . |
| 30 | This time we want to make the 1st division . |