Example sentences of "not want [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great danger of the last days of the campaign is that those voters who wish to punish the Tories , but do not want Labour , may not understand the situation . |
| 2 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 3 | ‘ We do not want economic war with Russia , ’ Mr Otsason stresses . |
| 4 | Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained . |
| 5 | I do not want central Government to say how many teachers should be at a school in Barnet or how much should be spent on books in Barnet . |
| 6 | ‘ Even with respect to the equality issue there will still only be a difference of degree ; the Conservatives might not want the income distribution to become far less equal than it is , and the Labour Party might not want complete equality of income distribution . ’ |
| 7 | However , Geoffrey is almost at the top of his salary scale and does not want extra commitments . |
| 8 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 9 | An automatic machine does not want mere automata to look after it . |
| 10 | They do not want multiple entries of the same plan but an entry that goes beyond 16 games as a single column plan . |
| 11 | We do not want fossilised museum pieces of countryside but communities with jobs and a living , dynamic and healthy social fabric . |
| 12 | You 're heading off into a grand adventure , you might not want additional baggage . " |
| 13 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 14 | The question remains , if the Irish do not want toxic waste , will Britain have to accept even more of it ? |
| 15 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 16 | West Germany and Holland support the idea because they do not want other EEC countries to enjoy the competitive advantage of fewer regulations than they themselves have . |
| 17 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 18 | ‘ But I agree that we do not want bland pitches . |
| 19 | though he did not want Lindy to know that they listened until they heard a noise again Then Bill laughed . |
| 20 | ‘ Ask yourself which woman does not want Black Michael to marry the Princess . |
| 21 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 22 | Indeed Bevin did not want joint bases in peacetime : these might simply provoke the USSR . |
| 23 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 24 | Parents do not want trendy socio-economic arguments about why their school is not as good as another . |
| 25 | If the NEA is to survive , it will have to act responsibly vis-à-vis the electorate and the electorate does not want certain work funded . |
| 26 | It would be ideally suited to anyone who does not want full orchestral score facilities . |
| 27 | A useful technique with steps , I find , is to apply a thin line of paint under the ridges of the steps and , using a wet brush only , no paint , pull the paint downwards in the line of the shadow , blotting out rogue runs that you do not want shaded . |
| 28 | A useful technique with steps , I find , is to apply a thin line of paint under the ridges of the steps and , using a wet brush only , no paint , pull the paint downwards in the line of the shadow , blotting out rogue runs that you do not want shaded . |
| 29 | The moguls of Thailand 's flourishing tourist industry do not want bad news to interfere with good times , especially among all those single men who crowd Bangkok airport . |
| 30 | Yet party leaders did not want direct control , in case TANU was banned : they wanted the paper to be able to continue even in the event of this happening . |