Example sentences of "they [vb past] not wish " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued there were provisions in the Single European Act which ensured that member states could not be obliged to accept abortion services if they did not wish to have them . |
| 2 | What they knew , what they did n't know , and what they did not wish to know tied people in some terrible knots . |
| 3 | What was it that the lenders had to offer potential borrowers at this time , facilities which would help solvent individuals to meet ‘ special ’ capital expenditure — buying a boat , adding a conservatory — which they did not wish to , and maybe could not , take out of an adequate income without upsetting the household budget , and many credit traders ( mostly credit brokers , agents who ‘ arranged ’ loans from moneylenders in the style of stockbrokers ) highlighted as meeting the needs of those already in debt ? |
| 4 | Among those who voted against it were some closeted gays : if there was to be a purge , they did not wish to be among the victims . |
| 5 | In 1989 , Lloyds Bank , the firm 's landlords in Newport , announced that they did not wish to renew the lease on the Newport office . |
| 6 | Their draughts of memory were clear and generous but the daughters — in truth Richard 's nieces but brought up as his sisters — thought there were points with which they did not wish to embarrass their mother and after our talks Rhianon wrote : |
| 7 | Mrs Whitehouse , in her account of the campaign , argued that the real reason why they did not wish to become involved was because of the topic of the poem — homosexuality — rather than its blasphemy . |
| 8 | Sh that th the people were willing to make promises that they did not wish to keep that they would not keep and I in all sincerity could not let them do that , and they went away extremely hurt and that particular situation unfortunately became extremely tragic later on . |
| 9 | Many of them supported the move to recruit the law into their plans for moral reform , but they did not wish to see their own efforts displaced by police powers . |
| 10 | Future pensions are a matter for the new companies , and it would be surprising if they did not wish to secure pension arrangements that are satisfactory to their employees in the interests of attracting and retaining a motivated staff . |
| 11 | Oil producers found themselves with large dollar surpluses which they did not wish to deposit in the USA , partly as we have seen because of the prevailing regulations but also for political reasons . |
| 12 | The following intimated that they did not wish to stand for re-election , Dr F. Neave , Mrs S. Peterson , Mrs V. Hawkins , G. Espin , A. Mack . |
| 13 | Indeed , Irish people have sought survival elsewhere , and people often left this country because they did not wish to stay in the slums of London , Birmingham or Liverpool but sought a better life in Australia or elsewhere . |
| 14 | Of the twenty patients eligible for phase 2 , three refused to try the suspect foods arguing that they were not important in their diets ( mushroom , apple , and peanuts ) and they did not wish to risk a recurrence of symptoms . |
| 15 | But you see one other person who was there last night was at one time involved with a major , no longer major Scottish company which did all its substantial charitable giving anonymously once a year through its lawyers because they decided that they did not wish to be publicly associated with any particular thing and then the representative from John Lewis said last night |
| 16 | Hurd went some way to placate this view by assuring MPs that if they did not wish to incorporate the treaty into British law , by voting down the whole bill , then the treaty would not be ratified . |
| 17 | They pointed out in their judgment that they did not wish to be taken as approving in any way the retention of corporal punishment . |