Example sentences of "[noun sg] want [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heredia wants to be poetic and hard ; the hardness appears to him as a virtue in the poetic . |
| 2 | If the male wants to be potent in these activities , he must avoid the menstruating woman . |
| 3 | Right , mummy wants to be purple . |
| 4 | The industry wanted to be able to use the funds that it had generated to invest in youth training . |
| 5 | Dona wanted to be alone and was bored with social graces . |
| 6 | Israel , whose new ambassador in Washington had complained to the press on February 14th that America was giving Israel the ‘ runaround ’ on housing aid for Soviet immigrants ( the administration wanted to be sure that $400m in loan guarantees , now agreed , would not be used to settle immigrants in the West Bank ) . |
| 7 | It is their secret knowledge that the child wants to be able to share . |
| 8 | Tendring District Council wants to be responsive to the needs of residents and to work in partnership with them . |
| 9 | Back To The Planet want to be massive , but theirs are still down-to-earth concerns … |
| 10 | But the general wants to be prime minister . |
| 11 | See twice the size , it wants twice say the it 's nine inch and you want it twice the size the canvas wants to be eighteen inch does n't it ? |
| 12 | Then , from nowhere , a kind of despair seemed to settle on him , and he felt lonely and used and cheated , and for a moment wanted to be far away from this slim , black-haired woman with her tense white face and her slender fingers . |
| 13 | If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do ! |
| 14 | I think the committee as a whole wanted to be cautious because as has been said earlier our main prime responsibility must be to those who need rest home or nursing home care and have nobody else to fund them . |
| 15 | It is a truism that every woman wants to be able to choose how many children she has . |
| 16 | ‘ Very much , ’ she replied — well , she had fallen a little in love with Mariánské Láznë , and he was much too sophisticated a man to want to be bored by her problems . |
| 17 | ‘ The poor fellow wants to be alone , ’ Benjamin murmured . |
| 18 | With intended communication , the communicator wants to be that part of the environment to which the receiver is paying attention and also to design what is attended to — in order to produce some effect . |
| 19 | Given the chance to put their MEP on the spot in Strasbourg , this generation wants to be sure they 're on the right track . |
| 20 | So a customer wants to be sure they will work ; we can offer a very high standard plus a technical back-up . |
| 21 | The company want to be satisfied about the conditions under which the lift is being undertaken and may wish to charge additional premium to delete this exclusion . |
| 22 | The first time , Dalgliesh had been impressed by Massingham 's intelligence and enormous capacity for work , and by his admirable ability to keep his mouth shut and to sense when his chief wanted to be alone . |
| 23 | business you see that , er anyway , erm no , I think it 's more that the Home Office want to be satisfied that you 're the sort of person who will make a good probation officer . |