Example sentences of "they want [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did workers understand by and mean by nationalization and what did they want from nationalization ? |
| 2 | Encouraging local managers to use their entrepreneurial and leadership qualities by contributing to the corporate planning and decision-making structure ; in other words , they can influence the future of services if they can convince colleagues and seniors that such change is justified across the organization , but they can not do whatever they want without authority |
| 3 | Instead , they want to steamroller it through with a guillotine , and will not entertain common-sense discussion . |
| 4 | Others claim they want to fine-tune the timing the real challenge , so as to enhance the prospects of Chris Patten as an eventual leader . |
| 5 | A record number of pupils received their A-level results today , but many will be left wondering if they 'll get the place they want at university . |
| 6 | In deploring this latest IRA atrocity , and hoping that those responsible will be brought to justice — like all those , from both sides in Northern Ireland , who carry out squalid murders — may I ask whether the Secretary of State agrees that it is important that we do not play into the hands of the Provisional IRA by following policies which , although the IRA deny it , they want for propaganda purposes in the Republic of Ireland and the United States ? |
| 7 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 8 | In my experience most women take what they want from life without a thought for whom it hurts . |
| 9 | Or , with a continuing conviction that others will never meet their needs , they may have to get what they want by stealth or theft ; they learn that only self can look after self . |
| 10 | Advice workers unfortunately may see two strands to their training : that which they are required to undergo , contrasted with that which they want in order to overcome their personal shortcomings in the interview room . |
| 11 | Not everybody has a creative outlet to say what they want in life . ’ |
| 12 | What they want in future is 32 seeds in all the Grand Slam tournaments instead of the 16 they have at present . |
| 13 | But this soon coincided with a clampdown on public expenditure and councils were told they could n't spend as much as they wanted on housing . |
| 14 | As I recall , the French poets of the late 19th century said that the same motivation lay behind their startling verse : they wanted to epater la bourgeoisie . |
| 15 | According to representatives of the French club they wanted to cash-flow the transfer fee in stages and put Nicholas on an eight month probation to see if he would behave . |
| 16 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 17 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 18 | Of course , there may be those who would argue that the entrenchment of the middle ground in power would be a good thing that would lead to moderate government and stable policies , but let them not argue that it would also be fair or would give the majority of people what they wanted of government . |
| 19 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 20 | Shortly after , the Watch Committee decided unanimously that Henry Peck was no longer the man they wanted for Chief Constable . |
| 21 | ‘ That was a very important meeting as I gained an understanding of what they wanted for rugby to be unified . |
| 22 | It gave them space and energy to reconsider what they wanted from life and to make certain changes with confidence . |