Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If our concern is health , widely defined , not merely medical care , it is probably inevitable in our present society that resources do not exist to meet all the demands that the pursuit of health for all may make .
2 Dexter sat with the superintendent while she dialled the head of the Press Bureau , who told her his phone had not stopped ringing all day : press and television news editors were demanding to know why Scotland Yard was keeping such a low profile on the Nicola Sharpe story .
3 I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted .
4 As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense .
5 It is not scaremongering to raise these spectres .
6 Owing to the limited dispersal area and the possibility of enemy air attack in the Clyde area , the decision was made not to risk ferrying any more to Renfrew until the 23 Spitfires already on the ground had been transferred to the docks in Glasgow .
7 What is the smallest amount she can not make using these coins ?
8 They do not want to abandon these .
9 I do not want to die , James my son , but I do not want to live all my life in an English prison .
10 Having said that he 's been out that long you know Alan and Cooper he 'll not want to miss any more football surely ?
11 I did not want to take this , but he insisted .
12 ‘ As for this , ’ she said , ‘ I am taking this , my sweet , to show your father who , I feel sure , will not want to let such a thing go unnoticed . ’
13 Something similar to this can happen in discussion if a speaker does not want to let another interrupt .
14 Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’
15 I am sure that the more sensible people in racing and in the Jockey Club would not want to see that . ’
16 Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard .
17 erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them .
18 She hates Odborough and does not want to see more of it than need be .
19 We do not want to see more knife carrying by people who are mentally ill , although that clearly affects a minority of community care cases .
20 Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss .
21 We do not want to see those jobs destroyed .
22 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 .
23 I could attack the capital and kill all the Lilliputians , but when I remembered the King 's past kindness to me , I did not want to do that .
24 However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided .
25 But , erm , you may not , you may not want to do that .
26 The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe .
27 The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising .
28 I did not want to do this and did n't go .
29 Do you not want to do this ?
30 Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else .
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