Example sentences of "they do [not/n't] want [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they do n't want finicky stuff , they want er a large pay packet fo , er stamping er envelopes . |
| 2 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 3 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 4 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 5 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 6 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 7 | They did not want arty philosophical essays . |
| 8 | They did n't want small contracts — they were headaches . ’ |
| 9 | James and Laura Lonsdale , who are close friends of the Princess of Wales , say they do n't want other parents to suffer as they did . |
| 10 | They do not want multiple entries of the same plan but an entry that goes beyond 16 games as a single column plan . |
| 11 | West Germany and Holland support the idea because they do not want other EEC countries to enjoy the competitive advantage of fewer regulations than they themselves have . |
| 12 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 13 | Using LFS data , Table 7.1 shows that temporary workers in semi- and lower skilled industrial occupations are more likely to be working on this basis because they do not want permanent jobs . |