Example sentences of "[noun sg] wanted be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Bancroft et al. ( 1977 ) found that more than half the attempters felt they had needed some form of help before the act , and that the most common type of help wanted was someone to talk to . |
| 2 | What the Initiative wanted was a generic ACE/Intel machine comparable to the MIPS ARC . |
| 3 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 4 | All the ordinary Italian wanted was an end to the war , but it was difficult to imagine a world ruled by Nazis , Fascists and the Japanese . |
| 5 | What the Bank wanted was a closer relationship with banks ' auditors . |
| 6 | What the public wanted was a good rail service and not surprisingly successive generations of British Rail managers put their major effort into achieving that . |
| 7 | What the public wanted was not economy , practicality , money-saving and engineering quality but extravagance and swagger . |
| 8 | What the original working party wanted were local measures of ill health — morbidity — by age , sex and marital status . |
| 9 | ‘ The last thing my mother wanted was a child underfoot while she was dealing with a baby . |