Example sentences of "[vb base] not want [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not want commercialisation , if anything it is this that will drive them away . |
| 2 | Or we may say we do not want treatment which ‘ just keeps us alive without any hope of a cure ’ . |
| 3 | Those who do not want change are , however , unlikely to wish to leave a system in which they are already working . |
| 4 | I certainly do not want rugby to follow this pattern ’ . |
| 5 | If , for any reason , you then decide that you do not want Home Improvement Loan Protector cover , you may return your Certificate to NatWest within 14 days for cancellation without charge . |
| 6 | I do not want legislation which would give less conscientious members of the medical profession permission to confuse expediency with compassion . |
| 7 | The Sheldons do not want revenge . |
| 8 | Teenagers do not want parents too interested or involved in their world . |
| 9 | What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like . |
| 10 | Thus , while painting and decorating courses have rather faded because people do not want ex-prisoners inside their houses to decorate them , it is apparently much more acceptable to have an ex-prisoner in your house to repair your word-processor . |
| 11 | Their plight is indeed a miserable one , but , as they say , they do not want charity . |
| 12 | ‘ For myself , I do not want memories . |
| 13 | No wonder pensioners do not want payment direct to bank accounts . |
| 14 | Senior managers do not want things to go wrong , and will not take what they consider to be unnecessary risks in recommending one supplier as opposed to another . |
| 15 | The truth is that , while they want us to win , they do not want Germany to lose . |
| 16 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 17 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 18 | Here there also may be more compliant subordinates who prefer this more authoritarian style there may be individuals in any organisation who do not want responsibility and who prefer to be told what to do . |
| 19 | I want to ensure that the genuine claims of those who are in need are dealt with properly , promptly and accurately , I do not want campaigns to be organised on the basis that people sign a piece of paper that has been delivered to them by a welfare rights organisation . |
| 20 | But at the same time their concern with Eastern Europe is one more reason that they do not want West Europeans to do anything that weakens NATO . |
| 21 | I do not want over-regulation or road traffic engineers simply toeing the line and following regulations as they are laid down where they may not be appropriate for their particular locality . |
| 22 | These adopters do not want society to say that they have a black child , that is , a child of two black parents . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , they do not want Hong Kong in the equation . |
| 24 | People do not want standards that tie companies down comprehensively or that rule out the use of judgment . |
| 25 | I do not want pomp and glory . |
| 26 | ‘ When people vote on the day , they are looking at the party who will form the government , and in this part of the country they do not want socialism , ’ said Mr Peter Hodgson , the Conservatives ' Western Area chairman , who was confident the Conservatives would retain all their seats . |
| 27 | I do not want matriarchy to replace patriarchy as an interim measure because I retain unshakeable faith in women 's ability to organize , to be caring and to be , just in so many ways , superior to men . |
| 28 | We do not want people who know about structuralism or the ‘ new criticism ’ . |
| 29 | The problem is that , because the broadcasters do not want people to receive their signals this way , information is not openly available . |
| 30 | ‘ We do not want people to have to go into betting shops to buy tickets , ’ said one Heritage Department source . |