Example sentences of "who wished [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , so pressing were the requests to see her , and no doubt her eccentric widower as well , that Martin Van Butchell was obliged to place an announcement in the St James 's Chronicle on 21 October 1775 , restricting the hours for viewing and putting conditions on those who wished to view . |
| 2 | He believed that ‘ there was nothing to prevent those who wished to give their service voluntarily working with the authorities , and after many years producing a magnificent edifice for public health to help their fellows ’ . |
| 3 | Mrs Bottomley would not be drawn on whether it was a public inquiry , but told BBC Radio 4 's PM programme that all who wished to give evidence to Sir Cecil would be able to do so . |
| 4 | At the end of the war Churchill was the most famous of those who wished to give the highest priority to close and continuing ties with the United States . |
| 5 | Having said nothing about the er the charity erm erm the meeting on erm the meetings four times a year and we 're quite but there are some available for erm people erm and particularly to erm we agreed a list of people who wished to give them Christmas gifts , cash but I 'm sure they would help and and erm the names of people who who might need help er are always welcome so if I could just erm erm ask people to let me know if they know of anyone financial help . |
| 6 | A mind with original ideas , who wished to persuade the Protestants to be more Catholic and to persuade the Catholics to respect the truths of Protestantism , was instantly a must for those who thought about the reunion of the Churches . |
| 7 | The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession . |
| 8 | There were a number of comments made about 24 or 48 hours ' advance notice of courses which meant people who wished to attend having to miss them . |
| 9 | It was not confined to Methodists , but was for all children who wished to attend . |
| 10 | In the case of Mr. Choudhury his grounds of appeal urge circumstances of very great personal hardship surrounding both his daughter who wished to attend the school and other members of the family . |
| 11 | ( e ) there was widespread agreement amongst those who opposed the proposal , that a solicitor who wished to act in the circumstances outlined in the question ought nevertheless to be under an obligation to disclose to the lender any personal , family or employee interests attaching to the transaction which might give rise to a conflict . |
| 12 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 13 | Those who wished to appeal more directly to fascist or nazi ideas would criticize her Christian and anti-German ideas , while stating that she was on the right track . |
| 14 | At this stage , the G-5 ( personnel ) branch of AFHQ was still firmly upholding established policy , with the minor proviso that Yugoslavs who wished to return should be able to do so . |
| 15 | On April 23 the government tabled a bill providing for indemnity against prosecution , detention or arrest for political activists — including exiles who wished to return home — facing criminal or civil charges . |
| 16 | Earlier we might have said his conduct and manner of speech were appropriate for one who wished to renounce the status he had stolen , and show his recognition of Esau 's authority as the elder son . |
| 17 | Twice a week , having given their word of honour that they would not attempt to escape , those prisoners who wished to go for a heavily guarded march through the surrounding countryside , along lanes chosen for their loneliness , were allowed to do so . |
| 18 | In short , what the figures confirm is that the major achievement of building societies is to take funds from surplus units within the personal sector , to supplement these with lending from other sectors and to lend to personal sector units who wished to go into deficit to buy houses . |
| 19 | Anyone who wished to see the King would often approach Seton . |
| 20 | Although Charles 's own personal inclination was to refound a wide , comprehensive church able to encompass as many of the various denominations of the 1650s as possible , it was soon clear that the king would have to bow to pressure from the bishops , the conservative landowners , and their representatives in the Cavalier Parliament , who wished to see a more narrow restoration . |
| 21 | Cromwell returned from Ireland in 1650 to lead the English resistance to the threat from the Scots , and by his subsequent victories at the battles of Dunbar and Worcester he thwarted not only those who wished to see the return of the house of Stuart , but also those who sought to impose a Presbyterian church on the English people . |
| 22 | The broad difference was between those who advocated some form of centralised planning and those who wished to see the government as the final umpire of a largely free market . |
| 23 | Until this point , the structure of government outside Whitehall had been merely a matter which worried civil servants who wished to see their departmental policies executed more rapidly and efficiently , though some Liberals , some academics and sections of the ‘ quality press ’ had shown a passing interest in the subject . |
| 24 | Met Head in corridor who wished to see me urgently regarding an incident which occurred when I was out . |
| 25 | The Geneva Conference had been attended by many SE Asia countries who wished to see a split Vietnam . |
| 26 | While the Comintern policy was nominally accepted in Britain it was only vocal extremists , backed by the Comintern , who wished to see it rigorously enforced . |
| 27 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 28 | King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV finally acknowledged in an interview with New Zealand television in March , in which he claimed that Pohive and other dissidents were Marxists who wished to overthrow the royal style of government , that the money was being held in a United States bank so that the government would not spend it . |
| 29 | This was not an unconscious result of everybody 's inability to be value-free , but an achieved conventional politeness , consciously assumed to avoid giving offence : it also , incidentally , put the burden of being disagreeable on anyone who wished to oppose the unstated assertions . |
| 30 | It was an isolating experience with penalties for those constables who wished to exchange civilities with their peers or with passers-by . |