Example sentences of "want to [be] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to be able to answer questions such as , ‘ What makes a good tool for exploratory learning ? ’ and ‘ How can a tool help children too manipulate it easily ? ’ |
| 2 | Effective managers usually want to be able to give an answer to it . |
| 3 | And I then want to be able to collect information on sources of pollution around their sites , if they notice particularly busy roads , things like that . |
| 4 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 6 | I 've got to admit , I want to be able to do that too ! ’ |
| 7 | They want to be able to do more than one thing with their lives — and they 're rather good at it . |
| 8 | Well I want to be able to do that easily . |
| 9 | I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , we 're in competition and we want to be able to say to our members do n't go to that trade union because they will put you all in one lump , go to this one because we 've got sections , because we look at our members with individual needs and please support this motion . |
| 11 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |
| 12 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |
| 13 | People want to be able to take it away and study it . |
| 14 | Most of those who come to church expect and want to be able to sing , and the Commission believes that the music in parish churches ought to be substantially congregational . |
| 15 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 16 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | The World Index Trust is designed for investors who want to be able to move between overseas markets but do not want to choose particular stocks to buy . |
| 18 | Most importantly , you need a high-end package if you want to be able to print and control colour separations to have your image printed professionally . |
| 19 | People want to be able to borrow for their homes or businesses in a currency where the interest rate is not exorbitant . |
| 20 | I want to be able to sit with friends around a dinner table and not think about what I am doing . |
| 21 | Jane Mahmoud , of Harrogate , said : ‘ I am a single parent with two children , and I want to be able to support myself . |
| 22 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 23 | My expectations from analogy with the past , like a dog 's , are sometimes realized , sometimes disappointed ; if the mechanism were not often effective it would not as it evolved have been spared by natural selection ; but I , as a rational being , want to be able to judge when it is reliable . |
| 24 | ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads . |
| 25 | Magazines are fine , but you want to be able to go into bookshops and have access to other people 's minds and lives through fiction . |
| 26 | I want to be able to go to his grave on the day of his death . |
| 27 | The decision here will depend on whether or not you want to be able to watch broadcast TV . |
| 28 | Now look at our country , we are absolutely by we want more , we want fewer regulations , we want to be able to live on an island , without being told what to do , by the politicians , and I support the view that politicians ought to stop telling individuals what to do . |
| 29 | Many people and firms want to borrow money for long periods of time , and yet many depositors want to be able to withdraw their deposits on demand or at short notice . |
| 30 | Mr Bush 's men are trying to establish the administration 's authority : they want to be able to decide freely where the money goes and in what form ; and they want to be allowed to shift it at will from one country , and one programme , to another . |