Example sentences of "[noun sg] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well what a what does your mum want to do ? |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Rose , ’ she said silently , ‘ you make my heart want to burst out of me . |
| 3 | This may again be necessary for work with learning resources , but librarians and experienced teachers will in any case want to stress the absolute necessity of previous detailed checking to see that the resources likely to be helpful and required are actually available . |
| 4 | So how can a computer want ? |
| 5 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 6 | These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck . |
| 7 | Chrissy , right , does your ca your T-shirt want washing ? |
| 8 | For example , would a Scottish Parliament want to spend its limited resources on renationalisation , rather than on the pressing problems of homelessness , joblessness , or lawlessness ? |
| 9 | ‘ I- want to put appearance at the office before lunch . ’ |
| 10 | Davis had suspected that for to could not introduce complements of the verb want , and one particular native speaker , when questioned , had confirmed this tentative hypothesis . |
| 11 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 12 | The UN 's outer-space division wants to spend $500000 next year on schemes for training and also on setting up an advisory service for Third World space engineers . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , IBM 's AIX division wants to go one better and negotiate a deal for Kingham , Oxfordshire-based Binary Star Ltd 's DeltaStar software ( UX No 409 ) , a development programming environment which can re-engineer RPG II-based code to run on any system that supports Micro Focus Plc Cobol or C — not just IBM AIX . |
| 14 | When the ghost wants something , he must have it . |
| 15 | The ghost wants Box 5 ? |
| 16 | The ghost wants money ? |
| 17 | The university wants to expand from 6,800 students to 15,000 by 2030 and it is clear some private fee-paying would be instrumental in that expansion . |
| 18 | It does not help , I 'm afraid , now when American cultural chauvinism wants to reclaim Pound , that Dorothy was an Englishwoman whereas Hilda , the childhood sweetheart from Bethlehem , Pa. , was echt -American . |
| 19 | If the user wants to keep the appliance switched on , he touches it to trigger the sensor and reset the timer . |
| 20 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 21 | If a user wants to read all the news stories on say , Lloyd 's insurance , he or she simply types in the name on a computer keyboard and a complete list of stories appears on the screen in seconds . |
| 22 | It assumes that a user wants to work only within NeXTstep , not on a Unix command line , something it claims other products have failed to realise . |
| 23 | If the user wants something slightly different or related , the system is then at a loss to provide the necessary links . |
| 24 | Application packages and command driven data management systems are two attractive approaches — the choice between then depending mainly on whether the user wants an instant solution or a tailored system . |
| 25 | The user simply selects available options based on what the user wants to get out of the system . |
| 26 | If the user wants the listing to be grouped by individual charge code , the user should enter ‘ Y ’ to the question ‘ Relationships grouped by Charge Code ( Y/N ) ’ and press TAB . |
| 27 | Once this limit is reached , or the user wants to force the user to whom it has most recently been passed to accept the SPR , option 3.8.0 — Force User to Accept SPR must be used by a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege . |
| 28 | Heredia wants to be poetic and hard ; the hardness appears to him as a virtue in the poetic . |
| 29 | The striker wants the crowd to repeat the deafening noise generated against Leeds . |
| 30 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |