Example sentences of "does not want " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Washington this week Mr Ozal made it clear that he does not want either a Kurdish state or a divided Iraq . |
| 32 | And it does not want to knock the stuffing out of a fragile market . |
| 33 | She obviously does not want to go above her starting weight if she can help it . |
| 34 | It was also the soundbite the British Museum probably does not want to hear , but that Miss Melina Mercouri does . |
| 35 | Nielson does not want to scare them off with a mountain of assorted technology . |
| 36 | Any new government which does not want to be caught out should draft the necessary statute changes as a priority . |
| 37 | But with the confidence of youth she does not want to wait beyond Barcelona for her first Games medal . |
| 38 | He does not want opinion polls banned , as is the case in Australia and some European countries . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | While Dublin does not want to upset present political co-operation with Britain , there is anxiety about Sir Patrick 's record while Attorney-General when he was closely involved in many aspects of Anglo-Irish relations . |
| 41 | The generally low-key Libyan response suggests that Col Gaddafi is intent on riding out the sanctions and does not want to repeat the mistakes of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who provoked the West last year by taking foreign workers hostage as ‘ human shields ’ . |
| 42 | But the teacher of this lesson wisely does not want it left as ‘ slack ’ as that : she qualified the listener 's contribution by suggesting she should be in role as a friend , colleague or relation . |
| 43 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 44 | She does not want of be forced into a legal structure dominated by her . |
| 45 | 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 ’ . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud . |
| 48 | The trainer then has to decide whether the horse is being rather stubborn and refuses to work because he does not want to or because there is something preventing him from relaxing and settling down . |
| 49 | Worse ( < ) touch ; does not want anyone to come near him . |
| 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 | Extreme irritability ; does not want to talk or be disturbed and may later be stupefied , a state of stupor bordering on unconsciousness even . |
| 53 | Unless there is a well-trained intelligence to begin with , the continual performance of a single task will reduce the man to the level of a machine … the employer does not want a mere machine … |
| 54 | An automatic machine does not want mere automata to look after it . |
| 55 | Against the use of a letter it must be noted that it is not easy to write a short but very clear letter explaining everything the informant may want to know , and if the recipient decides that she or he does not want to co-operate then she/he is warned in advance of the interviewer 's call . |
| 56 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 57 | However , if a person does not want to remember names of minor characters in a novel , or does not have to remember arbitrary names to perform an experimental task , a representation of content from which that information is omitted — an incomplete mental model — will suffice . |
| 58 | Actual dislike of a specialty will produce a negative student who does not want to learn . |
| 59 | She wants an abortion and does not want her parents to know anything about it ’ — was no drawback . |
| 60 | For one thing , Erik Quistgaard , the present incumbent , does not want to go . |