Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The reason is that we want to deal with the Keynesian model in greater detail and derive policy implications from it . |
| 24 | You see the thing is that we want the economy to pick up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | The trouble with everyone these days is that they want constant sensation , to live on the peaks of existence . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’ |
| 29 | One obvious answer is that they want to protect themselves against their own tendency to act rashly , in the heat of passion . |
| 30 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |