Example sentences of "[noun sg] want to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And equally every defector wants to be the best . |
| 32 | Back To The Planet want to be massive , but theirs are still down-to-earth concerns … |
| 33 | Everyone in the business wants to be seen to be there , but the places are limited . |
| 34 | But the general wants to be prime minister . |
| 35 | See twice the size , it wants twice say the it 's nine inch and you want it twice the size the canvas wants to be eighteen inch does n't it ? |
| 36 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 37 | Where do you start with love , every body wants to love , every body wants to be loved , every one at some time or another is disappointed by love and while its difficult sometimes talking about it not talking about it can have some really serious consequences , so let's try to get to the heart of it tonight , one hundred women are prepared to share their wisdom if not their secrets , I 'd like to start off by seeing if we can differentiate between loving and being in love . |
| 38 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 39 | Then , from nowhere , a kind of despair seemed to settle on him , and he felt lonely and used and cheated , and for a moment wanted to be far away from this slim , black-haired woman with her tense white face and her slender fingers . |
| 40 | Before her accident the plaintiff wanted to be a conference organiser and had intended to go into hospitality management as a career . |
| 41 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment . |
| 42 | ‘ Floyd the private person wants to be up to my waist in water with a fishing rod , ’ he said . |
| 43 | Not every older person wants to be in the company of peers , or find it difficult to include younger people among their circle of friends . |
| 44 | If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do ! |
| 45 | Doctors are only of use if a — a person wants to be cured . " |
| 46 | If the dead person wanted to be buried outside the parish where they lived , the permission of the local clergy must be sought , and can be refused , unless there is space in an existing grave that the family intended for the dead person . |
| 47 | I think the committee as a whole wanted to be cautious because as has been said earlier our main prime responsibility must be to those who need rest home or nursing home care and have nobody else to fund them . |
| 48 | Another problem , unexpected , was that practically everyone amongst the Scots leadership wanted to be involved . |
| 49 | Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie . |
| 50 | ‘ I think , ’ she added , ‘ that your father wants to be as proud of you as he was of your moth-er . |
| 51 | On the one hand , the examiner wants to be told nothing that is irrelevant to the question . |
| 52 | To the atmosphere generated by the yearning faithful , add the element of competing with or complementing showbizz , and a leader performs , where the marginal voter wants to be talked to . |
| 53 | It is a truism that every woman wants to be able to choose how many children she has . |
| 54 | I mean she said to me on Monday something about , I mean it 's her that wanted to be in , in , by the middle of March , now I never said the woman wanted to be in by March |
| 55 | How does the pace want to be compared with normal con one to one conversation perhaps ? |
| 56 | Women who let themselves be raped by one man want to be raped . ) |
| 57 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 58 | ‘ Which of you vermin wants to be the first to burn in hell ? ’ |
| 59 | Cricket : Essex Man wants to be a winner again |
| 60 | The main sway against my argument would be the vastly increased competition in the '90s , with every other kid wanting to be a soap star or a pop idol . |