Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 32 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 33 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 34 | She did not want to be rude to him . |
| 35 | I really , strongly do not want to be ruled by such people — people with America 's political correctness , but without the American love of liberty ; people with the Continent 's dirigisme , but without a Continental breadth of culture ; people with a modern metropolitan 's contempt for his own country 's traditions , but a bumpkin 's ignorance of economics . |
| 36 | Any new government which does not want to be caught out should draft the necessary statute changes as a priority . |
| 37 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 38 | It is time to take into account the feelings and views of the ‘ natives ’ and to make it quite clear that anyone who does not want to be part of the family should n't come to the house . |
| 39 | That they did not want to be wage slaves in a factory . |
| 40 | And while he accepts that a lack of funds could be a serious obstacle to change , he does not want to be ‘ mesmerised by difficulties ’ . |
| 41 | No one can deny that he is more exciting , excitable and unconventional , with a mix of old and new Hollywood rolled up into a package that mixes James Dean with Humphrey Bogart , though Nicholson insists that he does not want to be compared with anyone . |
| 42 | Dupea did not want to be tied down by anything or anyone — which seemed Nicholson 's own philosophy — and he wanted above all to keep on the move . |
| 43 | There seemed to be nothing else nowadays , and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular . |
| 44 | She did not want to be evil with Ryan either , but fortunately , Ryan understood all that . |
| 45 | Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group . |
| 46 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 47 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 48 | When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful . |
| 49 | This person does not want to be meddled or interfered with in this state ; everything is a burden and they do not want to be disturbed . |
| 50 | This person does not want to be meddled or interfered with in this state ; everything is a burden and they do not want to be disturbed . |
| 51 | The sick child does not want to be touched or sometimes even looked at . |
| 52 | He had locked himself in as he did not want to be disturbed by Emily . |
| 53 | He did not want to be around when they told him ; he had enough to do without becoming involved in a domestic squabble . |
| 54 | Do not worry that you are being judgemental — we do not want to be judged for the pride we see in ourselves . |
| 55 | As a school we did not want to be seen as constantly rolling out the begging bowl . |
| 56 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 57 | New Scientist , in a rich week , reported the successful attachment of glass fibre beaks to injured pelicans , asked , oddly , who made the Andes islands of ice ( perhaps an outbreak of creationism ) and explained why chimpanzees are not people , concluding that the chimps would probably not want to be , anyway . |
| 58 | HI FI enthusiasts who do not want to be involved in new-fangled digital technology now have a fresh analogue controversy to get their teeth into . |
| 59 | They do not want to be reminded of their own ageing by the evident blooming of youth at such close quarters . |
| 60 | That having been said , I would not want to be without the very special qualities of this new Teldec release — a most moving interpretation brilliantly performed . |