Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] want [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 2 | At the same time , the protectorate 's authorities want to maintain high standards of financial propriety with strict rules . |
| 3 | None of Kasmin 's artists wanted to leave , except Noland , ‘ whose work had gone off anyway , ’ so he moved into a smaller space in Clifford Street . |
| 4 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 5 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 6 | John 's granny Luise Tomlins said the youngster 's parents want to break the news to him gradually . |
| 7 | Leaving behind their Stalinist-era organisation and programme , Poland 's Communists want to become a left-wing parliamentary party capable of winning elections . |
| 8 | Most of NCR 's owners want to sell the company to AT&T . |
| 9 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 10 | Now , the farm 's owners want to knock the house down and rebuild it . |
| 11 | Exploratory 's trustees want to raise £2 million from industry ( their main target is computer firms ) to set up the centre and guarantee its future for at least three years . |
| 12 | The city 's academics want to emphasise Oxford 's entertainment facilities . |
| 13 | It 's an outside chance — but all the more reason why Mrs Friel 's daughters want to find out more about the treatment their mother received . |
| 14 | The headquarters ' engineers want to develop an electric version of the HST , which will involve considerable redesign and could take several years to complete . |
| 15 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |