Example sentences of "not want the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions are often worded to cover only a fragment of a particular subject ; in that case the examiner does not want the whole of it . |
| 2 | They do not want the Bill , privatisation or to lose their pension rights . |
| 3 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 4 | It does not want the Bill . |
| 5 | Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls . |
| 6 | Did not want the water |
| 7 | But the company did not want the hassle — or embarrassment — of dealing direct with its own low-paid work force . |
| 8 | She wanted so much to remain with him on the terms which had always existed between them , did not want the wealth and consequence of her real life to come between them before it needed to . |
| 9 | Realism was not a primary concern , but I did not want the painting to look too flat . |
| 10 | Costa Rica did not want the treaty terminated or suspended : it wanted performance of its rights of consultation . |
| 11 | If he was unfaithful , despite soaring divorce figures and growing evidence that most petitions are brought by women , the majority would not want the affair to wreck their marriage . |
| 12 | Like the other English mystics , Hilton does not want the contemplative to agonise and strain unduly . |
| 13 | What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already . |
| 14 | I do not want the name of that singer , but I want the name of a singer with the same name . |
| 15 | Ask them why this is and they will reply that should they die during the night they do not want the person who finds them to feel they were dirty or slovenly . |
| 16 | We do not want the child to rely on guidance for all instructions indiscriminately . |
| 17 | Did not want the hill-slope from which it echoed |
| 18 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 19 | The other person does not want the relationship to end , although this can be the outcome , but perhaps feels subjected to unreasonable demands or expectations , or is struggling with guilt or frustration , or feels neglected and unwanted . |
| 20 | She did not want the relationship to start up again . |
| 21 | But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me . |
| 22 | Does the Prime Minister agree that we do not want the militarisation of space , and that in any case it is not needed ? |
| 23 | An out of court settlement of $50,000 was paid since Jax did not want the publicity . |
| 24 | erm perhaps I 've misunderstood Miss 's comment on it but Leeds would not want the consideration of traffic consequences to be limited to roads within North Yorkshire . |
| 25 | We do not want the Rorim humming like a top with news like this , and Bragad here . ’ |
| 26 | Maj Abraham said the villagers did not want the convoy to leave because ‘ we offer them a chance of life . |
| 27 | The client did not want the teddy to have glass eyes . |
| 28 | I quote from one such document without giving my source because I do not want the firm to be identified : |
| 29 | Did he intend everyone in the castle to know he did not want the wife he had married in such a hurry ? |
| 30 | The majority of the Soviet population , particularly in Russia and the Central Asian republics , certainly did not want the Union to be eliminated — they wanted its democratic transformation . |