Example sentences of "be that [pron] want " in BNC.

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1 The only possible answers are that they wanted to ensure that Lothar would not evade the battle , and that the battle would be decisive .
2 Well , if there is a God and if he can help , would you know what help you truly want , what the changes are that you want to bring about in your life ?
3 ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised .
4 Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire .
5 I 'm that he wants .
6 ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’
7 Now this time we 're here for four weeks so it would probably be that they want to get everybody through this time without anybody escaping the net .
8 For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) .
9 They may need to reorganize because of demography — that 's the number of pupils that are in a particular area , where you 've got too many schools , or it may be that they want to change the type of offer , such as some of us want to do in the City of Oxford .
10 The main criticism seems to be that he wanted to change things , forms of service and such like .
11 However , it could be that you want to send the same information to TV , radio , national dailies , the local evening paper and the weekly trade journals .
12 Longer term , well I do n't know it , it could be you want your bigger house , your detached house , it could be that you want erm , status within the company .
13 More significant could be that it wants to guarantee supplies of ore to its tin smelter — the only one in Britain at Capper Pass , near Hull .
14 I do n't know whether it 's that we want much , too much
15 yeah , but she they did n't get the one 's that , she could n't get the one 's that she wanted cos they did n't have enough
16 the difficulty quite frankly is that everybody wants to join the Study Groups on foreign affairs or economic policy and I am not at all sure that electorally these are the two most important .
17 Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there .
18 You know , er given enough time and preparation and if we define clearly what it is that we want to analyze , you know I can provide that information er in the form of a report or in a rawish state and we could discuss that .
19 The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted .
20 The main reason for haste is that we want to promote the raffle through our magazine , Rural Wales , which is being ‘ put to bed ’ this week .
21 So as you said the danger is that it 's not balanced for our delegates and the ideal is that we want the combination of all four .
22 I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different .
23 I further question the policy erm which , erm just mentioned , the average salary issue is that we want , erm that 's , that 's gon na cost us a million pounds next year , but we are doing it , so there 's a million pounds in growth in everybody 's er budget and basically everybody 's budget when we come to later .
24 The reason is that we want to deal with the Keynesian model in greater detail and derive policy implications from it .
25 You see the thing is that we want the economy to pick up .
26 So in a way , what my teachers here and what we are arguing about is that we want a school which cares for individual children , which rejects both extremes that I 've mentioned .
27 ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’
28 The trouble with everyone these days is that they want constant sensation , to live on the peaks of existence . ’
29 ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’
30 One obvious answer is that they want to protect themselves against their own tendency to act rashly , in the heat of passion .
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