Example sentences of "[verb] not want [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agency workers , too , were more likely to give not wanting a permanent job as their reason for working on a temporary basis . |
| 2 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |
| 3 | City sources indicated they did not want a wide-ranging Budget that would tackle much-needed reforms such as mortgage tax relief and that it would be better for the Chancellor to do as little as possible . |
| 4 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 5 | The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM . |
| 6 | I did not want a post-modernist confusion . |
| 7 | She did not want a prolonged discussion , she wanted only that he should go away . |
| 8 | Winnie did not want a married couple , and such a minute flat would not be suitable for people with babies or pets . |
| 9 | She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes . |
| 10 | In 1949 Beryl found that she was pregnant again , but did not want a second child . |
| 11 | Maybe he did not want a second game on their pitch . ’ |
| 12 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 13 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 14 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 15 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 16 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 17 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 18 | He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be . |
| 19 | It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands . |
| 20 | He and Jenny were sufficient for each other ; they did not want a third person , especially a person whose tastes were so dissimilar and who did not fit in with their lives or their friends . |
| 21 | Mr Rurka said he found the council 's decision difficult to understand , but he stressed that he did not want an adversarial relationship . |
| 22 | He did not want an American invasion . |
| 23 | It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river . |
| 24 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 25 | The latter did not want the prime ministership , calculating that another tough spell of cohabitation could damage his presidential chances in 1995 . |
| 26 | For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east . |
| 27 | The fastenings for the steel bits would need to be on the gun deck , and it was on the gun deck they had some of the electronic equipment they did not want the Chilean officers to see . |
| 28 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 29 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 30 | He did not want the next one to start soon . |