Example sentences of "wish to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 2 | Even the churchmen , closely tied to the opposition , stress they do not wish to be seen as ‘ anti-Communist ’ . |
| 3 | An Anglican may not wish to be seduced into all the absurdities of church politics , still less into the hobby of church ceremonial . |
| 4 | ‘ We do n't wish to be associated with what is a political act [ the scheme ] . ’ |
| 5 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 7 | Individuals have a right not to be touched if they do not wish to be touched , since the body is private . |
| 8 | The cases decide that this exception extends to touching a person in order to attract attention , although there can be no exception when the person touched has made it clear that he or she does not wish to be touched again . |
| 9 | I do not wish to be like those dumpy , chisel-faced women with shopping baskets who tut-tut scandals to each other between the stacked shelves of dog-food , striped toothpaste , coloured toilet-rolls and instant mashed potato in the supermarket opposite the triangle of Shepherd 's Bush Green . |
| 10 | That every man in arms should wish to be ? |
| 11 | This gathering , above all , does not wish to be disturbed or embarrassed or confused . |
| 12 | This is a procedure like Swift 's , except that Leapor is staking her claim to real dignity ; she asserts that she does not wish to be valued for beauty , but for her wit and , as we glean from other poems , her morals . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not wish to be spared … |
| 14 | Many Palestinians also feared that the PLO leadership would not welcome the kind of lively debate and democracy which the popular movement had fostered , but would wish to be authoritarian in its government . |
| 15 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 16 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 17 | If it were more forcefully to challenge the ageism that underlies the social structure , would it be in danger of provoking a backlash from those of its supporters who do not wish to be reminded that all is not well , despite their charity ? |
| 18 | Older customers with special requirements do not wish to be seen as different . |
| 19 | On many occasions I have heard environmentalists say that they do not wish to be ‘ tarred by the same brush ’ which has so comprehensively covered some extremists in the Animal Rights Movement and which has brought that movement into disrepute . |
| 20 | No one can be healed if at one level ( often on an unconscious level ) they do not wish to be healed , or if they can not trust , or let go of any fears that may be blocking the flow of healing energies . |
| 21 | On the other hand , you will probably not wish to be subject to a correspondingly onerous commitment if you are the one who is keen to go . |
| 22 | You can not always be on hand ( and nor would you wish to be ) to monitor your child . |
| 23 | Rape victims , for example , may fear the consequences of reporting the act , and may not wish to be cross-examined by the police or in court and be exposed to possible innuendoes and suggestions that they ‘ encouraged ’ their assailant . |
| 24 | Again , thought must be given to which local firms or businesses are acceptable and which companies governors would not wish to be associated with in the interests of pupils and the good image of the school . |
| 25 | This is not only for ethical considerations but more pragmatically because there is an assumption that if you treat others as you would wish to be treated , they will respond in kind . |
| 26 | If a resident does not wish to be disturbed , respect their wishes , but visit the room regularly , even if you do not speak . |
| 27 | A Farnham Lane resident who did not wish to be named said that he was strongly opposed to any footpath being opened up to traffic . |
| 28 | Not that I had any wish to be presented — I mean there is all this protocol and etiquette to be observed and I may have blundered . |
| 29 | To this unheroic proposal Charles retorted passionately that ‘ rather than go back , I would wish to be dead and buried 20 feet underground ’ , but Murray 's reputation was by now such , and his arguments so well mustered , that he won over his colleagues . |
| 30 | The reasons for this dearth of activity may stem from a general lack of enthusiasm amongst Caledonian flyers ( I accept that it is a minority interest ) or , hopefully , from a lack of both events to stimulate interest or outlets for those who would wish to be involved . |