Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [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 | I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What is the smallest amount she can not make using these coins ? |
| 5 | They do not want to abandon these . |
| 6 | I do not want to die , James my son , but I do not want to live all my life in an English prison . |
| 7 | Having said that he 's been out that long you know Alan and Cooper he 'll not want to miss any more football surely ? |
| 8 | I did not want to take this , but he insisted . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Something similar to this can happen in discussion if a speaker does not want to let another interrupt . |
| 11 | Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’ |
| 12 | I am sure that the more sensible people in racing and in the Jockey Club would not want to see that . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She hates Odborough and does not want to see more of it than need be . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We do not want to see those jobs destroyed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided . |
| 22 | But , erm , you may not , you may not want to do that . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I did not want to do this and did n't go . |
| 26 | Do you not want to do this ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I would not want to pre-empt any joyous , or even hopeful , news that he might tell us tonight . |
| 29 | He did not want to spend another night on his seat in Madison Square . |
| 30 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |