Example sentences of "we want [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within five years we want to be close to 15 per cent . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We want to be practical . |
| 3 | I think we want to be encouraging young people because you told me that they 're all quite keen to do something for Save The Children Fund now it 's the seventy fifth year . |
| 4 | We want to be proud again ! |
| 5 | ‘ We want to be proud of this album when it comes out and be able to stand over it . ’ |
| 6 | South Africa opened an " interests office " in Windhoek on Dec. 13 , 1989 , offering a full range of consular services , including issue of passports and visas ; the deputy head of the office said : " South Africa demonstrates by this that we want to be good neighbours and hope it will be possible to retain normal and friendly relations with the neighbouring state . " |
| 7 | We have a choice if we want to be involved in research |
| 8 | We want to be convinced . |
| 9 | If we want to be neutral , should we continue normal supplies to the Reds or should they be discontinued ? |
| 10 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |
| 11 | Almost , but erm one could certainly arrive at a situation of the sort you 're imagining that we want to be sure that when we look at some very exotic phenomena in the past of the universe , which has no parallel on earth , erm or in our vicinity , how can we be sure that the laws of physics that we 've deduced on earth really apply ? |
| 12 | It is whether we want to be rich or poor — rich in Europe or poor outside it . |
| 13 | We want to be a big village , we want to be human beings living in a human society |
| 14 | In addition , if we want to be true to our ecumenical commitment , it should not exclude religions other than Christianity . |
| 15 | Everton have cut the cost of their kit , while Wimbledon , who are refusing to jack up their prices , have said : ‘ We want to be fair to our supporters . ’ |
| 16 | Adrian Titcombe , the FA 's crowd management co-ordinator , said : ‘ We want to be clear where the trouble occurred so we will study all the reports before coming to any conclusion . ’ |
| 17 | We want to be able to challenge the whole idea of housework being women 's work , just as we want to challenge whether engineering or surgery or being a crane driver or a football referee , whether any of those are men 's jobs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted . |
| 20 | " We want to be able to make ourselves heard , " he said . |
| 21 | Er and we we want to be able to have a mechanism within our I S O Nine Thousand system , which enables us to tackle different jobs of different , different complexity . |
| 22 | ‘ We want to be able to understand their needs and we have put on extra patrols in areas where Asians feel that they are vulnerable . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And yet we want to be able to exploit new opportunities and new technologies as they come along to get the best out of our systems for our businesses . |
| 25 | And we want to be able to provide the controllability that we achieve traditionally through centralization in the mainframe environment in what will inevitably be a distributed world . |
| 26 | The most crucial aspect is whether we want our currency to be locked into a stable currency in Europe or whether we want to be able to devalue our currency in the hope of averting unemployment . |
| 27 | 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 ? ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ We want to be able to identify the person who left the site in a contaminated state . |