Example sentences of "do [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 2 | If you do not want a baby , but want your IUD removed , this is best done during a period , and you should immediately start using another method of contraception . |
| 3 | A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb . |
| 4 | This is a permanent method of contraception and is only recommended for those who are absolutely sure that they do not want any more children . |
| 5 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 6 | You do not want to get trapped by detail . |
| 7 | Nor , however , is it to be submitted to the terrorism or plain language , that mythical weapon or those who prefer the comforting repetition or the ideological caress ; who do not want to READ . |
| 8 | A MORI poll commissioned by the Independent Schools Information Service , representing most private schools , suggests 57 per cent of Labour supporters do not want such schools abolished . |
| 9 | They do not want to operate independently because they are unable to do so . ’ |
| 10 | It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ . |
| 11 | Asked if the Russians had provided the Afghans with the latest MiG-29s , he said : ‘ Anything we desire will be given to us but we do not want to escalate the war . ’ |
| 12 | They do not want to select . |
| 13 | They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions . |
| 14 | ‘ We accept that some of the gypsies , the traditional travellers , do not want to be settled and wish to remain mobile . |
| 15 | We do have traditional travelling people but we also have a lot of people these days who are dropping out of society and who do not want to stay put anywhere . ’ |
| 16 | Many East Germans say that , though they themselves do not want to leave , there is almost universal resentment at the official lies and the unbending attitudes of the authorities , who , by cancelling visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia this week , made it even more difficult to escape what one person called ‘ our cage ’ . |
| 17 | I do not want to say that we are going to get rid of everyone , only those who are our enemies . |
| 18 | Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence . |
| 19 | If London is not to implode and if people are not to be paternalistically forced to live the way they do not want to live , new towns will have to be publicly designated . |
| 20 | The polls show that about 70 per cent of American troops do not want to risk the lives of American troops to achieve such goals . |
| 21 | The bigger nations , for their part , have already developed systems of takeover supervision , and do not want to be encumbered with another layer of M&A bureaucracy . |
| 22 | The British Technology Group will be responsible for all patenting and for handling licensing of any technologies which the member companies do not want . |
| 23 | ‘ We do not want economic war with Russia , ’ Mr Otsason stresses . |
| 24 | Either they do not want to run the risk of miscarriage ( about one in 100-200 ) which the procedure entails ; or they would not want a termination even if the baby was found to be disabled . |
| 25 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 26 | THE BRITISH teenager is happy at home and one in three do not want to leave the parental nest ever , according to a survey carried out by The Indy this week . |
| 27 | Otto Reinhold , an East German ideologue , reinforced this gloomy view by insisting : ‘ We do not want reform for reform 's sake , but changes which will help the further development of socialism ’ . |
| 28 | The World Index Trust is designed for investors who want to be able to move between overseas markets but do not want to choose particular stocks to buy . |
| 29 | For investors who do not want to tie up their money for a year in an income bond , Town & Country 's ( tel : 01-353 1476 ) new Classic investment account is paying 12 per cent net of basic rate tax for sums of £25,000 and over . |
| 30 | But we do not want planning in this sense . |