Example sentences of "[adv] want [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The denial of prejudice is strategic , but ‘ we thereby want to convey that the move is strategical only relative to the goal of ‘ making a good impression ’ , rather than to the goal of being ‘ sincere and honest ’ ( p. 127 ) . |
| 2 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I badly want to run well again over 10,000m . |
| 4 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 5 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |
| 6 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 7 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 9 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 10 | Indeed , he remains the one royal personage whom portraitists most want to paint . |
| 11 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 12 | Given that we wish to give British industry the flexibility to employ part-time workers , is not this another effort by Labour to hit the people who most want to seek jobs ? |
| 13 | We have two sorts of customers — those who are happy with DOS and want to carry on using it , and those who eventually want to move to Windows . |
| 14 | We obviously want to see those companies continue as viable units . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ People obviously want to shop on Sundays — we have over 3,500 customers every Sunday . |
| 16 | ‘ We obviously want to continue to encourage young people to buy a home of their own and feel it makes a lot of sense . ’ |
| 17 | Frank obviously want to travel to the US next year and to be in contention he — has — to play first team football — Frank was cited today as not beeing to impressed with Deano : ’ 2 goals in 12 matches in England is not at all impressive ; the chances keep coming all the time in games over here ’ . |
| 18 | Because Governments obviously want to timetable their Bills and get their business through as soon as possible . |
| 19 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |
| 20 | As I have not had any personal experience of prostitution , I obviously want to get my fact right . |
| 21 | As a Lotus user , you obviously want to get the most from your software . |
| 22 | Its precise siting relative to the house will depend on the positions of windows and door in the side wall of the house ; you obviously want to avoid covering windows but a courtesy door entering the garage could actually be a bonus on wet nights ( note that the door must be a fire door in this situation ) . |
| 23 | We obviously want to avoid asset stripping and the selling on of assets at a large profit . |
| 24 | ‘ The book is so appealing that my pupils constantly want to know what comes next . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I especially want to thank my wife Carol and other close friends . ’ |
| 26 | Consequently , this is the least favoured method unless you especially want to echo screen output to the printer . |
| 27 | And we especially want to hear from youngsters who want to make a short piece of film themselves . |
| 28 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 29 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 30 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |