Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] want to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fellow PFK readers may want to be aware of this , should they be fortunate enough to find themselves in , or near , the principality . |
| 2 | I had wondered how a man in his right mind could want to be with me and decided that no girl in her right mind would want to be with him . |
| 3 | I had wondered how a man in his right mind could want to be with me and decided that no girl in her right mind would want to be with him . |
| 4 | And while no carrier would want to be bound by terms and conditions other than those on the receipt message he sent , no transferee would want to pay for an electronic bill whose terms and conditions are other than those he received . |
| 5 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 6 | Firstly , the identification and recording of unmet need is not a finding which agencies or governments will want to be made public , especially if one object of the community care reforms is to reduce eligibility for services . |
| 7 | Lenders will want to be compensated more for the risk of default . |
| 8 | ‘ Owen would want to be a significant force at United . |
| 9 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will want to be very careful not to scare people unecessarily . |
| 10 | Rolle says that the first two stages defined in Ego Dormio are possible for actives as well as contemplatives , though he does comment that during the second stage his pupil will want to be alone " to thynk on Criste , and to be in mykel praying " ( 65 – 66.158 – 9 ) . |
| 11 | Even with editorial offers the magazine will want to be sure that stocks will not give out too soon , or they will have a great many disappointed readers . |
| 12 | Salespeople must be able to work and communicate with people in a variety of positions and be prepared to tailor their selling approaches to satisfy individual needs , e.g. specifiers will need to be convinced of the technical merits of the product , production people will want to be assured of guaranteed deliveries and buyers will be looking for value for money . |
| 13 | Kid must want to be a Disney cartoon villainess when she grows up . |
| 14 | ‘ When your Uncle Jim died , ’ Louise continued , ‘ and I decided to retire up here , it seemed the most natural thing in the world that cousins should want to be close in their widowhood . |
| 15 | In some cases , for example the high profile job of a Press Officer or the technically demanding role of Planning Secretary , committee members might want to be sure they are filled by people with the right qualities . |
| 16 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 17 | He strongly criticised local government for increasing bureaucracy and asked why anyone with an interesting and busy life would want to be involved with it . |
| 18 | Third , it is also likely that prior to making an investment the firm would want to be sure that any upsurge in demand and in output is not a temporary phenomenon . |
| 19 | And if being thin is more acceptable than being fat , then of course Black girls will want to be thin . |
| 20 | The acquirer will want to be sure that grants will not be withdrawn or have to be repaid . |
| 21 | But anyone who launches a bid for Ferranti will want to be sure there are no more black holes lurking in the company 's books . |
| 22 | As Sperber and Wilson have shown , there is a variety of reasons why a hearer who was not in a position to process an utterance or block of utterances might want to be presented with a summary of it , and correspondingly , a variety of different sorts of summaries that a speaker might provide . |
| 23 | In that case , the ship would want to be a large number of miles away before the mine was activated . |
| 24 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
| 25 | It 's still not widely appreciated that men can want to be objects , as much as agents , of desire . |
| 26 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 27 | It was unlikely that Selborne residents would want to be buried there . |
| 28 | The haulier and the other contracting party must want to be bound contractually by their promises . |
| 29 | It does not seem to bother them that their chances of survival are low , but then only the most crazed Goblins would want to be propelled high into the air anyway . |
| 30 | I am assuming Environment Wales will want to be associated with an informative document promoting sustainable development . |