Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] want [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fellow PFK readers may want to be aware of this , should they be fortunate enough to find themselves in , or near , the principality . |
| 2 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 3 | Firstly , the identification and recording of unmet need is not a finding which agencies or governments will want to be made public , especially if one object of the community care reforms is to reduce eligibility for services . |
| 4 | Lenders will want to be compensated more for the risk of default . |
| 5 | ‘ When your Uncle Jim died , ’ Louise continued , ‘ and I decided to retire up here , it seemed the most natural thing in the world that cousins should want to be close in their widowhood . |
| 6 | In some cases , for example the high profile job of a Press Officer or the technically demanding role of Planning Secretary , committee members might want to be sure they are filled by people with the right qualities . |
| 7 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 8 | And if being thin is more acceptable than being fat , then of course Black girls will want to be thin . |
| 9 | As Sperber and Wilson have shown , there is a variety of reasons why a hearer who was not in a position to process an utterance or block of utterances might want to be presented with a summary of it , and correspondingly , a variety of different sorts of summaries that a speaker might provide . |
| 10 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
| 11 | It 's still not widely appreciated that men can want to be objects , as much as agents , of desire . |
| 12 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 13 | It was unlikely that Selborne residents would want to be buried there . |