Example sentences of "wish [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 2 | In the days before shops the local people would stock up with goods not available at the weekly market , while those wishing to sell were able to dispose of surplus goods and livestock since the guild monopoly of local trade was suspended for the duration of the fair , so all buying and selling became concentrated at the fairs . |
| 3 | This found that , without guidance , teachers gave what was little more than a reflexive response — all that the majority of primary school teachers appeared to wish to receive was more basic skills training . |
| 4 | Colleges wishing to participate were asked to indicate their intention by submitting a ‘ Request for Approval in Principle to Participate in the 1989 Pilot Programme ’ ( Form HN1 ) . |
| 5 | As has been suggested , ‘ prejudice ’ , as an everyday concept , as well as a social-scientific one , represents a strong cultural value : even racist theorists of a fascist party appear to wish to avoid being labelled as prejudiced and do not care to think of themselves as prejudiced . |
| 6 | Viewers wishing to help were given the address of AI at the end of the programme : over 1,500 letters were subsequently received at the AI office . |
| 7 | You may also wish to start up some or all of your LIFESPAN Processes on system reboot — the commands you will wish to include are described in Section 2.9 , Process Startup on System Reboot . |
| 8 | At 82 , the few people one might wish to see are all dead . |
| 9 | But what I would wish to suggest is that other considerations of an evolutionary kind lend weight to the view McDowell is challenging . |
| 10 | Because I I I 've said this to him before on on the floor of the house , that is what we are required to do in the insurance brokers registration council for all insurance broking firms , that is what parliament required in the insurance brokers registration act and it is not an onerous requirement on firms , it is not excessively expensive so it would meet I believe , any cost compliance test er that erm the er the D T I might wish to insist be carried out . |
| 11 | When the Community came to consider the application , one of the things that it would wish to ensure was that the benefit of the membership would be available to the whole community . |
| 12 | A further issue which we may also wish to consider is the one of ‘ value added ’ . |
| 13 | The further risk both the vendor and purchaser will wish to minimise is alerting the particular customer or supplier as to how significant they are in relation to the business . |
| 14 | Some points which the client may wish to make are set out in section 1102.23 . |
| 15 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 16 | What we do wish to note is that other things being equal , the demand for bank lending will vary inversely with interest rates and that banks can not lend unless people wish to borrow . |
| 17 | Dave added the Nuneaton area was starved of good fisheries , and that the only choice for locals who do n't wish to travel is a couple of stetches of canal . |
| 18 | For policymakers the key point to recognise is that the way that people whom the organisation wishes to lose are treated is paramount , not just for their sakes , but also for those whom the organisation wishes to keep . |
| 19 | It is interesting to connect this point with Leapor 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ; as Leapor contemplates her own death , and the soul leaving the body , the last thing she wishes to see is her friend : ‘ Be you the last that leaves my closing Eyes [ ML , 1 , 40 ] . |
| 20 | The conclusion that Nizan wishes to highlight is lucidly straightforward : The forces of fascism are taking up the fight against the anti-fascist educator . |
| 21 | Because although it could be argued that what an utterance means is readily recoverable by anyone who can read printed English , it is important to understand that what the speaker wishes to express is more often than not defined by the factors which get lost in the process of transcription . |
| 22 | The purchaser may discover either at the outset of negotiations or from its due diligence exercise that the ownership of the assets it wishes to buy is distributed amongst various companies in the vendor 's group . |
| 23 | What he wishes to do is to establish through everyday occurrences the realization within you of his existence . |
| 24 | ‘ The hand of the corpse is hacked off ; the name of the person whom the witch or warlock wishes to hurt is placed between its fingers and then it 's buried at the foot of a gibbet on the first stroke of midnight . ’ |
| 25 | It might then be claimed that such a form of the text was incomplete or inadequate , because the point which the author wishes to make is no longer accessible from the written text . |
| 26 | The second small point I just wish to reemphasize was er coming from what the House Builders Federation said earlier about the house builders being the people who are looking after the interests os North Yorkshire locals . |
| 27 | Excellent refreshments will be provided , and those who wish to attend are asked to contact Catherine Sharpe at Institute headquarters as soon as possible , so that proper arrangements can be made for this important reception . |
| 28 | Mr Deputy Speaker the last thing also that I wish to see is local authorities . |
| 29 | The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay . |
| 30 | If the work you wish to attract is private client based and emanating from normal households , do not forget the possibility of a mail drop . |