Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also the Opposition did not want to waste time on such minutiae , preferring to tackle the government on wider issues arising from the conduct of foreign or domestic policy . |
| 2 | The moguls of Thailand 's flourishing tourist industry do not want bad news to interfere with good times , especially among all those single men who crowd Bangkok airport . |
| 3 | In that case the union had negotiated a favourable package for those employees whom the transferee did not want to take on and who , it was agreed , should remain with the transferor . |
| 4 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 5 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 6 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
| 7 | The president did not want this to happen . |
| 8 | But the lawyer did not want to talk about Doctor Lanyon . |
| 9 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 10 | If the NEA is to survive , it will have to act responsibly vis-à-vis the electorate and the electorate does not want certain work funded . |
| 11 | That is the sort of industrial policy that industry does not want . |
| 12 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the CBI , in its publication , ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ , drew attention to the fact that industry does not want to be organised , run and intervened in by TV producers , social workers and others ? |
| 13 | If the industry does not want to have any exemptions from the levy , it should be able to undertake such a policy in partnership with Government and the TECs . |
| 14 | Cricket club president Brian Kneeshaw has said the club does not want to move from the Green Lane site . |
| 15 | The College does not want to use security guards for fear of disrupting college life . |
| 16 | Newspapers like Moscow News and Nezavisimaya Gazeta ( Independent Newspaper ) busily report what the president does not want to hear . |
| 17 | Labour does not want people to own their own homes . |
| 18 | The election won , Baldwin prepared to move , both into 11 Downing Street , which was his by right , and into Chequers , which Bonar Law did not want . |
| 19 | With regard to blackmail the Criminal Law Revision Committee did not want a test that the accused 's belief had to be reasonable because such could be out of line with the rest of the 1968 Act , yet Feely and Ghosh do just that in relation to dishonesty falling outside of s.2(1) . |
| 20 | It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands . |
| 21 | Assistant chief leisure services officer Mick Hannon said the Council did not want to replace the competitions already being held . |
| 22 | Management did not want to experiment with work reorganization , employee control and management style ‘ in a corner ’ . |
| 23 | The shy ten-year-old did not want to take it because she had her new skirt on and a clean blouse and was intent on the fair . |
| 24 | An automatic machine does not want mere automata to look after it . |
| 25 | The sick child does not want to be touched or sometimes even looked at . |
| 26 | A cat does not want to die with the smell of humanity in his nostrils and the noise of humanity in his delicate peaked ears . |
| 27 | I believe that the Solicitor-General does not want to give way . |
| 28 | If the key person identified for the transfer does not want to move there will probably be a number of career-hungry individuals on the payroll who will willingly step into the vacant position . |
| 29 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 30 | ‘ However , David Pleat did not want to sell him because he was involved in trying to keep Luton out of relegation trouble . ’ |