Example sentences of "do [not/n't] wish " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no compulsive power in this amendment , nor will supporting legislation contain any obligation on those who do not wish to do so to use the mechanism it will set up . |
| 2 | Even if the Gallery does not buy it I do not wish to have anything more to do with it . |
| 3 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 4 | Some people feel their home is too big for one or two , but do not wish to move . |
| 5 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 6 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 7 | Even the churchmen , closely tied to the opposition , stress they do not wish to be seen as ‘ anti-Communist ’ . |
| 8 | We do not wish to commit the mistake that Woolgar believes is widespread in social science : namely , of suggesting that the only knowledge which is not subject to the influence of contingent historical , cultural , and social processes is that which we ourselves have written ( Woolgar 1988b ) . |
| 9 | If you do not wish to join a Branch you may join the Central Headquarters membership roll . |
| 10 | Whatever may be the case in Russia , we in the degenerate West can switch off the radio or television , or not buy a newspaper , or not read such parts of it as we do not wish to . |
| 11 | We have arranged a special offer : Country Living readers will be admitted free on presentation of the first page of this article ( or take along the March issue if you do not wish to cut your magazine ) . |
| 12 | Their eldest son aims to prove this by stealing an aeroplane to gain publicity for his pompous declaration that ‘ We boys do not wish to kill the children of any other school . ’ |
| 13 | We do not wish to harm you , or your state . |
| 14 | At a meeting between the Hungarian and Romanian leaders in August 1988 , ostensibly called to ease tension between the two countries , Ceausescu is reputed to have threated Karoly Grosz with the words : ‘ We do not , and do not wish , to manufacture nuclear weapons ; however , we do possess the capability to do so . ’ |
| 15 | If you do not wish to receive such mailings , please send your name and address to The National Magazine Company Ltd , DR Department , Eagle House , 50 Marshall Street , London W1V 1LR . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 17 | Individuals have a right not to be touched if they do not wish to be touched , since the body is private . |
| 18 | In the case of Rose of Lima , who is simply a very extreme and therefore very demanding example of a more widespread phenomenon , it seems that we must at least understand , even if we do not wish to reclaim and emulate , the ideas about purity which governed her life . |
| 19 | ‘ Isabel , I do not wish to know , I am not interested and there is pastry burning in the oven . |
| 20 | I do not wish to see people , to have to talk and explain , to be stared at and wondered about , to become the object of scorn , for they are all foolish . |
| 21 | Besides , I do not wish Dorothea 's friend to know of my arrangements . |
| 22 | ‘ But I do not wish to buy anything from you ! |
| 23 | I do not wish in a paranoid fashion to make too much of any one of these facts taken in isolation . |
| 24 | I do not wish to be like those dumpy , chisel-faced women with shopping baskets who tut-tut scandals to each other between the stacked shelves of dog-food , striped toothpaste , coloured toilet-rolls and instant mashed potato in the supermarket opposite the triangle of Shepherd 's Bush Green . |
| 25 | No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile . |
| 26 | By using the word ‘ altruistic ’ biologists do not wish to imply that animals are actuated by a concern for others , as will be obvious from the fact that they have written of altruistic behaviour not only in social insects but also in plants and even in viruses . |
| 27 | But we do not wish to appear personally involved in such unsavoury matters . |
| 28 | Howard replied , ‘ We do not wish to interfere with your religion , but you must talk about practicable things . |
| 29 | In giving this example , I do not wish to imply that the relationship between dramatic playing and performing is developmental — far from it . |
| 30 | Obviously this is not always the case , and if the parents do not wish to have the child because of the risks of mental handicap , they only course of action is termination . |