Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 2 | The generally low-key Libyan response suggests that Col Gaddafi is intent on riding out the sanctions and does not want to repeat the mistakes of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who provoked the West last year by taking foreign workers hostage as ‘ human shields ’ . |
| 3 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 4 | Voters do not want to see the Tories achieve their ultimate goal the destruction of the NHS , the welfare state and a return to Victorian-style society . |
| 5 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not want to labour the failures of the past but I do want to emphasise that many of the problems that are now being tackled are the legacy of past management failure . ’ |
| 7 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 8 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 9 | Assistant chief leisure services officer Mick Hannon said the Council did not want to replace the competitions already being held . |
| 10 | He does not want to say the words out loud . |
| 11 | The polls show that about 70 per cent of American troops do not want to risk the lives of American troops to achieve such goals . |
| 12 | You will not want to leave the needles in holding position so you must learn how to return them , since this will give you the reverse of the shaping . |
| 13 | A gently sloping edge or ramp leading into the water is vital if you do not want to endanger the hedgehogs that visit your garden . |
| 14 | ‘ We do not want to fight the Syrians any more , ’ he said . |
| 15 | It is no wonder that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East does not want to hear the facts about Government spending on science and technology . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not want to know the details . |
| 17 | It does not surprise me that the Minister does not want to know the facts . |
| 18 | We do not want to diminish the opportunities of local people to consult on the plans , and I do not believe that we have cut corners in the way that the hon. Gentleman implied . |
| 19 | A ministry spokeswoman said the testing was ‘ not intended to stop the eggs going onto the market ’ . |
| 20 | The change of name applies only to the company and its subsidiary and is not intended to affect the rights to any trade name or mark or the reference to ‘ ABC ’ on the product . |
| 21 | They had not intended to kill the twins , but what they did with matches was criminally reckless . |
| 22 | The system was not intended to supersede the police role of headmen , but to complement and support it . |
| 23 | The smell chemicals evaporate quickly and disappear without continual reinforcement , so the trail does not persist to mislead the ants once the food is exhausted . |
| 24 | Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers . |
| 25 | Has the time not come to investigate the factors which led to the move west from the 13 colonies in North America , to consider how these might be created to apply to a move east from the Urals to provide a similar development in potentially the greatest storehouse of raw materials and energy ? |
| 26 | Batteries will last longer because they will not need to drive the discs or maintain data when the mains current has been switched off . |
| 27 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 28 | When she came to the yellow and blue ones , she did not need to count the beads on the teacher 's necklace , but simply picked up three together with one hand and threaded them . |
| 29 | We do not need to increase the limits for at least another 18 months . |
| 30 | ‘ In many cases there will be commitments in the form of telexes or letters of intent but these are not expected to meet the requirements of the proposed legislation . |