Example sentences of "want be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ? |
| 2 | What we want is peace with security . " |
| 3 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 4 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 5 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 6 | Or : ‘ What I want is paper with narrow lines , |
| 7 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 8 | But it should bear in mind that the subject is one of particular national importance and that … what is wanted is organisation on a national scale . |
| 9 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 10 | What he wanted were answers to some of the things they might not have thought of . |
| 11 | The last thing he wanted was word to be passed to Maud . |
| 12 | What Henry wanted was control of Scotland , no matter whether by marriage treaty or by force . |
| 13 | What people wanted was food in the shops and a slice of the materialist cake they saw being gobbled in the West . |