Example sentences of "not [adv] want " in BNC.

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1 And whichever way it went , in any event , the public did not greatly want to know .
2 ‘ People who feel suicidal do not necessarily want to die .
3 This may involve telling them what they may not necessarily want to hear .
4 In many service businesses there is a growing number of people who do not necessarily want to progress in traditional career terms .
5 Nor do I try to get in touch with Lord Mountbatten , and I would not necessarily want to .
6 If in addition we require that the production function is said to satisfy the Inada ( 1963 ) conditions , but we do not necessarily want to impose these restrictions .
7 The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them .
8 What a lot of other societies will today though , will not necessarily want policies assigned to them anyway .
9 This is true in the sense that electors want stability and do not much want the higher thought .
10 For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven .
11 The aim of public policy — and of chairmen who do not merely want protection — should be to lean in the direction of involved shareholders , those who have a direct interest in a company 's fate .
12 Furniture was the focus of interest but , according to John Hill , from Jeremy of the King 's Road , London , the Americans did not just want good examples of standard items , they wanted something different , with a gimmick or original style .
13 MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it .
14 It must be remembered that you do not just want someone whose opinion is going to carry weight but someone who is also going to provide persuasive evidence both in their report and at trial .
15 Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love …
16 Well , I might not just want it there .
17 Secondly , there can be considerable psychological discomfort in having to pretend to beliefs that one does not really hold , or perform actions that one would not normally want to do .
18 They could not still want her now .
19 You will not always want to visit the nearest metropolis for your essentials .
20 The elderly do not always want to be on the receiving end , and any gift of food they offer us , whether it is a meal or just a pot of home-made jam , should be accepted with appreciation , for all such gifts are a part of the pattern of love in which they still wish to be involved .
21 Residents will not always want the same thing .
22 When larger quantities of main store became available , customers would not always want the maximum quantity addressable by the control unit .
23 The seventeen year old does not always want to listen to the views of his father and mother , particularly if he has his heart set upon a motorbike !
24 I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time .
25 A LETTER from Greta Garbo shows she did not always want to be alone .
26 Indeed , as far as -my self-interest is concerned , on what principle could I choose as an end sufficient in itself something which I do not spontaneously want ?
27 As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth .
28 THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on .
29 This drew the comment from Bertrand Russell that both East and West did not really want disarmament .
30 Is a certain situation or a certain person tempting you to eat the things you do not really want ?
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