Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] want [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We do not want to give the impression that employees who have a drinking problem will lose their job , but rather that the Company is now in a position to help them without losing job security . |
| 2 | Since the Observer 's leaks , indignant ministers do not want to give the impression of being bounced into publication . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 5 | I do not want to detain the House or myself for long , but I pay tribute to the role of the European Community and to the monitors who have served with considerable bravery and tenacity during the conflict . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I start to speak , but I do not want to lose the smoke . |
| 8 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 11 | We do not want to transform the world once again into a place for religious fighting . |
| 12 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 15 | Asked if the Russians had provided the Afghans with the latest MiG-29s , he said : ‘ Anything we desire will be given to us but we do not want to escalate the war . ’ |
| 16 | We do not want to carry the image of middle age in other people 's eyes , nor do we wish to think of ourselves as getting old . |
| 17 | I do not want to ignore the wood for the sake of labelling all the trees . |
| 18 | The Americans do not want to play the world 's policeman on their own , and can not afford to . |
| 19 | You know your own body , its capabilities and limitations , I do not want to specify the number of times you should attempt each exercise . |
| 20 | ‘ We do not want to fight the Syrians any more , ’ he said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We do not want to veto the building of the new unit after so much money has been raised . |
| 23 | We do not want to revive the crusade spirit once again . |
| 24 | The quantity given will stuff a 5kg/10lb turkey fore and aft , as you do not want to cram the bird to bursting . |
| 25 | A National Development Officer has been appointed to investigate the need for , and possible content of , a more general SVQ in Administration for centres which wish to offer a nationally recognised award , but do not want to offer the SVQ based on occupational competence . |
| 26 | ‘ I do not want to know the details . |
| 27 | Democrats in Congress do not want to embarrass the president by forcing him to choose between a veto of their bill and a snub of China — to say nothing of wounding Mr Patten . |
| 28 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 29 | Either they do not want to run the risk of miscarriage ( about one in 100-200 ) which the procedure entails ; or they would not want a termination even if the baby was found to be disabled . |
| 30 | During the run-up to the general election , the Government do not want to hear the word ’ privatisation ’ , but that is what is in store for the coal industry — or is it ? |