Example sentences of "would [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 31 | And there are not many boys who would not want to be him , because A he is attractive , B he can write and act , C he can play the drums and D he is a wild boy and rebel . ’ |
| 32 | I know of no fencing of the type you describe — and even if there were , you would be spending a lot of cash to install a feature that you plainly would not want , were it not for the heron 's attentions . |
| 33 | If you are soloing over a straight minor seventh you would not want to resolve a melodic line onto the minor sixth interval , although this would be okay on a m7£5 . |
| 34 | Once broken , they can only be removed by cutting through the fingerboard , a painful and delicate process which I for one would not want to see . |
| 35 | And I for one would not want to question the validity of people like these — and the many others I have n't mentioned — who have the guts and determination to become young masters of their instruments . |
| 36 | Dustin 's macho response seemed to indicate that he would not want his wife to work . |
| 37 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 38 | And yet , much as she enjoyed her career and would not want to give it up permanently , she had a great desire for a strong , loving relationship and wanted to have children of her own — something she would never be able to do if her present feelings persisted . |
| 39 | A criminal psychopath would not want to kick someone 's face in for the fun of it unless he had at least an inkling of what it feels like to the victim . |
| 40 | He is conscious that his wife would not want him to let slide everything she worked so hard to achieve . |
| 41 | This does seem a reasonable argument , and I certainly would not want to lose a therapy which could be of real value to people . |
| 42 | You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we ! ’ |
| 43 | Instinctively , she understood that Ceauşescu would not want a standard architect 's model made from cheap materials with only general hints at the building 's style and decoration . |
| 44 | This has resulted in a great deal of mutual education , and most would not want to worship together any more regularly than that ! |
| 45 | I would not want anyone to think we had provided the final word . |
| 46 | I think they will , but I can not be sure , and I would not want the National Curriculum to force him on unwilling teachers . |
| 47 | Of course he would not want to know me , Shiva thought . |
| 48 | As the skin is meant to be a barrier , you would not want any cleansing product to penetrate too deeply — nor do they . |
| 49 | And in fact , I would not want to suggest that feminist resistance — from guerilla raids on men who call us darling to all-out war waged on institutional bastions like the dictionary — is valueless . |
| 50 | ‘ We would not want to encourage anybody not to buy a licence . ’ |
| 51 | Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained . |
| 52 | I would not want anyone to think that all my interactions with editors and referees have been unrewarding , many of my papers have been improved substantially as a result of the feedback I have received . |
| 53 | One would not want to suggest that attending football games on Saturdays , as opposed to any other day , was rule-governed if matches are only ever played on Saturdays . |
| 54 | Frye writes that ‘ left to themselves ’ women would not want to serve men . |
| 55 | If he was unfaithful , despite soaring divorce figures and growing evidence that most petitions are brought by women , the majority would not want the affair to wreck their marriage . |
| 56 | Of the two , Biddulph again offer the finest transfers , though I would not want to be without Cortot 's version of the Liszt Sonata on Music and Arts where , despite so may battle-scarred moments , his performance blazes with an endearingly old-fashioned poetry , thunder and lightning . |
| 57 | These rights of control over one 's own possessions are valued rights — we would not want our shirt to be stolen , torn , or dyed by someone else — but this all-embracing idea of ‘ property rights ’ conceals a crucial difference between different forms of property . |
| 58 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 59 | Many people would not want to call these states democratic either . |
| 60 | He certainly would not want to do what he was told or even asked — by an outskirter . |