Example sentences of "we want [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing we want is to lose our independence to one of the big five . ’ |
| 2 | All we want is for things to go back to normal . ’ |
| 3 | when all we want is the meeting |
| 4 | What we want is something wherewith to prod the teachers so that they impart more facts more efficiently . |
| 5 | The last thing we want is teaching by numbers , reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What we want is very simple : we want wages for housework . |
| 8 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 9 | ‘ What we want is the children back home . |
| 10 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 11 | Now all we want is some bread and some onions an' we 're set . |
| 12 | I feel some drivers have been very , very lucky and the last thing we want is to have complacency creeping in . |
| 13 | The variable we want is the radius of the circle R . |
| 14 | The two things are very different , and yet if all we want is to produce consent , it can be got in either way . |
| 15 | The last thing we want is a fight now . " |
| 16 | Cos all we want is the words . |
| 17 | Now that we do live much longer with better health care generally , what we want is for women to be able to live that last third of their lives in health and being able to enjoy themselves and contribute to the community , not feeling that they 're crippled by pain . |
| 18 | What we want is down-to-earth accountability , not lots of incomprehensible grand ideas . |
| 19 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 20 | Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ? |
| 21 | What we want is only two hours . |
| 22 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 23 | What we want is a dictatorship . |
| 24 | What we want is — the Foreign Secretary ! |
| 25 | Otherwise all we want is for her to have fun , and to enjoy happiness and health . ’ |
| 26 | We are well aware of this problem and the last thing we want is ex-service men having to live in temporary accommodation . |
| 27 | The last thing that we want is a return to the spend , spend , spend — tax , tax , tax policies of the Labour party . |
| 28 | The last thing we want is approved contractors having to wait too long for their money . |
| 29 | What we want is peace with security . " |
| 30 | ‘ What we want is someone who 's an idiot and who has appeal . |