Example sentences of "[adv] wants to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought , ‘ Here is this man who just begs to be loved , and who just wants to be a handsome , gorgeous leading man , ’ but who really was not . |
| 2 | ‘ France no longer wants to be a country of immigration , ’ says Charles Pasqua , the interior minister . |
| 3 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , she still wants to be a teacher , and has begun to develop more social confidence through her work as a tutor . |
| 5 | Despite all my hard work , my son still wants to be a train driver and my daughter a nurse . |
| 6 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 7 | Acer America Corporation , which really wants to be a player in the reconstituted ‘ minicomputer ’ market , will be busy this week shoring up its defences at the low end . |
| 8 | Do you think that each lot really wants to be the other lot ? |
| 9 | A transsexual is somebody who actually wants to be the other totally … . |