Example sentences of "they want to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they , and do they want to be , urbanites or suburbanites ? |
| 2 | do they want to be part of the mystique of the century of the common man or to be an institutional monarchy ; to ride , as it were , in a glass coach or on bicycles ; to provide the tabloids with a running serial or to live simply and unaffectedly among their subjects like the Dutch and Scandinavian royal families . |
| 3 | ‘ If somebody were fashion conscious when alive , why should they want to be seen dead in something unflattering ? ’ |
| 4 | Why should they want to be heard in a traditional way , you 'd think students having a revolution will want everything make a kind of clean clean break would n't they ? |
| 5 | Do they want to be the centre of attention ? |
| 6 | Or do n't they want to be ? |
| 7 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 8 | But in practice they award half-points more often than full points because , I suspect , they want to be seen to have a high standard . |
| 9 | They want to be involved . ’ |
| 10 | And they come because they want to be rid of their fear : it gives them a completely new feeling of life to overcome their fear and come here . ’ |
| 11 | They must decide whether they want to be part of the decaying apartheid system or part of a new South Africa . ’ |
| 12 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 13 | That is , they want to be sure that the scrutiny of takeovers in third countries moving into the EC is as thorough and as fair as in the Community . |
| 14 | Abid Hussain , a Pakistani , is engaged to be married to Miss Rafique , a British citizen , and they want to be married in England . |
| 15 | They want to be the court of principle and last resort for British press standards . |
| 16 | They want to be the court of principle and last resort for British press standards . |
| 17 | But they want to be sure it is empty at the time they might need to sell or redevelop . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They want to be slim of course , yet after months or years of dieting failure you would think that it was time to stop trying . |
| 21 | They want to be interested and happy . |
| 22 | They want to be done with inducements and get cash flow from the start . |
| 23 | I hope your excellent paper will bring pressure to bear on the media and make April 23 a special day , and make the English realise they want to be ruled by their own countryman . |
| 24 | They would n't be keen on anyone with psychological quirks — like an entrenched hatred of men , for instance , or someone who is adopting a child merely because they want to be loved by a child . |
| 25 | It is assumed to be adversarial , whether the couple feel adversarial or not , whether or not they have specifically agreed that they want to be sensibly amicable . |
| 26 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 27 | ‘ The thing with The Wedding Present is that they can be as big and as successful as they want to be , ’ says Marshall . |
| 28 | Journalists , like anyone else , enjoy backing winners : they want to be ‘ one of us , rather than ‘ one of them ’ . |
| 29 | As a result of these additional responsibilities , an increasing number of companies will wish to have properly drafted contracts and may wish to inspect disposal sites where their waste goes if they want to be perceived as ‘ environmentally friendly ’ and be assured of complying with the duty of care . |
| 30 | They want to be let alone . |