Example sentences of "that [pron] want [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that the buyer selects a packet labelled , say , ‘ cocoa ’ from the shelf is that she wants cocoa and she is relying on the description ‘ cocoa ’ accurately to identify the packet and its contents . |
| 2 | The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love . |
| 3 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 4 | Specialist children 's bookseller Angela McPherson agreed that teachers wanted convenience in their book purchasing , but also emphasised that they wanted choice , advice on what was available and back-up services such as jacketing . |
| 5 | They would hear that they wanted help or anything . |
| 6 | Although both sides say that they want peace , innocent civilians are being slaughtered , their economies are being ruined , more than 400,000 of them are refugees and homeless and Dubrovnik , that jewel of the Adriatic , faces destruction . |
| 7 | The Government regularly claim that they want value for money . |
| 8 | Just as in this country , people in the US also say that they want information about APRs to be disclosed for credit transactions . |
| 9 | Or they might decide they want to learn how to read , that they want information about birth control , or advice about getting rid of a caique ( local boss ) . |
| 10 | There is one immediate step that Serbia could take as a clear sign that it wants peace . |
| 11 | In a speech on June 7 the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , described the Arab summit resolution as " in contrast to the Iraqi regime 's claims that it wants peace " , and dismissed as " illogical " its proposal for prisoner-of-war exchange to be conducted outside the framework of the peace negotiations . |
| 12 | ‘ The Government said that it wanted development work to continue at all pits , not investment , which implies new projects and new money . ’ |
| 13 | His misery was so great that he wanted revenge therefore Victor 's family were his victims . |
| 14 | Gillet was influenced in the liberation years by the cafe conversation of Jean Fautrier , who had said that he wanted painting in which everything previously learnt would be discarded . |
| 15 | It struck Hoomey then that Nails did not want to go home , even — possibly — that he wanted company . |
| 16 | He told us that he had been persecuted by his family , psychiatrists and a public mental hospital ; that he was in imminent danger of being detained against his will in hospital in Japan ; that escaping from Japan was the only way to secure his freedom ; and that he wanted shelter and legal assistance under international refugee law . |
| 17 | He declared that he wanted opposition party members to join the new Cabinet . |
| 18 | We 've heard tonight , and I do not believe it , a plea from Councillor , the Chairman of Social Services , that he wants ring fencing of Local Government money , I E the Government sends us our money and says , you will spend it on that and that and that and there will be now power of Local Councils to decide what the needs are in their areas and what their priorities are . |