Example sentences of "not want [to-vb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing that man 's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited , the folk of this age can hardly have failed to observe that new law was being made all the time . |
| 2 | I beat a heavy retreat : what I did not want to do was find out what the locals were like . |
| 3 | The TUC 's plans for the part of the economy which it did not want to nationalise were far removed from the anti-trust policy which the coalition was considering . |
| 4 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 5 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
| 6 | ‘ What we do n't want to see is our own producers being undercut . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What we do n't want to see is our own producers being undercut . ’ |
| 8 | The only people they do n't want to upset are the people at the garage the fact that somebody is n't doing their job properly somebody 's sitting on a form somewhere |
| 9 | I 'm not quite sure yet cos we 're this chicken and egg which starts first I think we 're gon na look at a an an interim type report in year nine a quicker type report I ca n't remember what it 's , it 's written down in my other diary because what I do n't want to happen is to , people to have a onerous report at the end of year nine , cos they 're gon na have to do a report there now |
| 10 | All I did n't want to happen was for him to become violent , which I did n't think was ever on the cards . |
| 11 | I was n't actually pleased with Zak as I did n't want to risk being identified as an actor , but that , I supposed , would be a great deal better than the truth . |
| 12 | ‘ Time Lords are supposed to remain calm , ’ he told himself , ‘ but then again , I do n't want to risk being late to meet Mait , do I ? ’ |
| 13 | What you do n't want to do is run up an overdraft in the hope no one will notice . |
| 14 | Er I what I do n't want to do is to prompt him into |
| 15 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 16 | And I do n't want to keep being reminded of it . |
| 17 | What she did n't want to admit was that she needed a man in it . |