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Example sentences for: wished

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Because we wished to clarify the debate about EBM, we have spent the bulk of this paper exploring the second-order conceptual questions concerning the nature of EBM.
..You don't think Herb Caen wished he'd been named "Mickey"?
There were many German-speaking Americans in Pennsylvania and other states; Dutch settlers in New York and elsewhere could learn to use German easily; German would be easy for other colonials to learn, since it was basically similar to English; the Hessians, German troop levies “rented” by the British, were deserting to the Americans and many wished to remain in America.
We wished to determine whether our observations of groups reflect this division, so we divided our dataset in two, creating one dataset of 'embryo' experiments and one of 'adult' experiments.
Further, because the available data included raw ESTs from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank (dbEST) as well as clustered ESTs from the Parasitic Nematode Sequencing Project [ 22 28 29 ] , for which the data can be presumed to be significantly more reliable, we wished to compare the efficiency of reducing each dataset with this filter.