Example sentences of "wants [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 2 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 3 | The final irony is that the kind of liberalism John Torode wants is itself illiberal . |
| 4 | On the penultimate page of Black Skin , White Masks Fanon declares that one of the things that he , the man of colour , wants is ‘ that it be possible for me to discover and to love man , wherever he may be ’ . |
| 5 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 6 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 7 | What she really wants is a puppy . |
| 8 | What this Government wants is partnership , not apartheid , between the private and the public sectors . ’ |
| 9 | All he wants is results . |
| 10 | ‘ What the world wants is a fast and comfortable commuter airliner that can land and take off from helicopter pads and heliports , which are now fairly common in the big cities , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The last thing that the Labour Party now wants is a compact with failure — particularly since such an arrangement , formal or by implication , would require us to sacrifice our ideological identity . |
| 12 | The last thing he wants is to be dubbed ‘ Saint James ’ . |
| 13 | What this house really wants is double-glazing , central heating , thick curtains and carpets , cellars stuffed with coal , and a log shed filled with nice dry logs . |
| 14 | What you wants is a bit of home comfort . |
| 15 | All He wants is for you to be truly sorry . |
| 16 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 17 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 18 | The last thing Ken Sawkins wants is to upset people but he feels strongly that he is doing the area a good turn . |
| 19 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 20 | Sometimes , too , it is possible to make the mistake of thinking that she is expecting us to come up with all the answers when , often , all she wants is the opportunity to state the problem to someone who understands and will not criticise her . |
| 21 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 22 | Having noticed the fertility ofodrugs as metaphor , what Ronell wants is not to explore the cultural meaning of drugs , but to get a piece of the action for herself . |
| 23 | The FBI argues that , because it already has the constitutional right to tap telephones , where it has a warrant , no new principle is involved : all it wants is the means to continue doing so . |
| 24 | All he wants is to work . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ All Diana now wants is to live her own life with some understanding from others . ’ |
| 26 | All he wants is to score goals for Wednesday and win back his England place . ’ |
| 27 | She 's totally cut off from other adults during the day , and when her husband comes home in the evening , all he wants is telly and early bed … . ’ |
| 28 | And on another occasion indicated that ‘ All she wants is a bit of hand-holding ’ . |
| 29 | He has sought treatment on a number of occasions and has come to the conclusion that he can not break the habit and that what he needs and wants is a maintenance regime , preferably on heroin — something that the medical profession in Wirral does not want to give him . |
| 30 | What one wants is a major library award of whatever it would cost to put a qualified librarian in . |