Example sentences of "want [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what do you want for sweet ? |
| 2 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |
| 3 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 4 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 5 | While it would be churlish to pass over the considerable tree planting effort already wrought in the central belt by the trust , the results of a three-year research project undertaken at the University of Edinburgh reveal little evidence that the needs and wants of local people have provided the vehicle for environmental change . |
| 6 | Marketing 's task is to define the customer 's needs and wants , but it is up to the other departments to convert those needs and wants into practical reality . |
| 7 | The role is the first major link between Marketing and Production , being involved at the earliest possible stages of transforming customer needs and wants into practical possibilities . |
| 8 | Just as firms have to modify what they want in strategic terms with what they can get , so too for government . |
| 9 | I can read all the newspapers I want in public libraries . |
| 10 | It 's all very well earning compensation for our members but what we want in public services is our jobs , not compensation . |
| 11 | There are massive holes in this line of argument ; but , roughly , the view is that since employers are not getting what they want from comprehensive schools , they are certain to get it , or more of it , from selective schools . |
| 12 | Negotiation is therefore a means of getting what you want from other people and as such qualifies as a tricky situation ( see page 168 ) , where the way you behave is a make or break factor . |
| 13 | Xtra , the process by which X/Open Group Co Ltd 's hopes to determine what users want from open systems , is being handed over to those very users in the shape of the X/Open User Council . |
| 14 | Local and national broadcasters outline what they want from independent producers . |
| 15 | ‘ And if there 's anything you want from Red Cottage I could fetch that too later on . ’ |
| 16 | Or rather not , but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without co-partner , so to add what wants in female sex the more to draw his love and render me more equal and perhaps a thing not undesirable sometimes superior , for inferior . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to Blue Horizons . |
| 18 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
| 19 | We er You always made friends with people , could talk to people and if they want to miserable they can be miserable , you 'd got to tell them a tale , whether you know it or not . |
| 20 | He wants to double turnover and significantly improve profitability to more than five per cent return on sales . |
| 21 | wants A-plus marked in teacher 's big black book . |
| 22 | They squat on ragged patches of grass like abandoned containers , painted bright colours , stuffed with more than anyone could want of Do-It-Yourself Equipment , Garden Furniture or , in one case , pure Leather . |
| 23 | Lloyd finds this paradigm wanting in various respects , and proceeds to develop an alternative approach in which the non-verbal channel of communication is precluded by asking children to communicate by telephone on a route-finding task . |
| 24 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 25 | Early houses which remain completely untouched are few and far between , but a general rule emerged during my research for the book : the less important the house and the more remote its situation , the more old-fashioned it remained , like Hareston in Devon , which had no fashion-conscious owners wanting to show-off their taste and wealth to passers-by . |
| 26 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 27 | Food , discipline , standards of living , the curriculum , educational facilities , study opportunities and employment prospects were all examined and found wanting by increasing numbers of students . |
| 28 | We would clearly want to base as much exemplification on our own published/to be published material and would certainly want in certain circumstances to veto things competing directly with ours . |
| 29 | Let's hope your partner does n't want to lazy on a beach all day ! |
| 30 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |