Example sentences of "[n mass] do not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly the army people did not want incapacitated ones . |
| 2 | The causal connections between early life chances and present opportunities were implicit rather than explicit almost as if people did not want to articulate these except in the ways that I report . |
| 3 | The great mass of the people did not want revolution , or else they would have elected a Labour Government . |
| 4 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 5 | No landowner — not even the king — could create a new town if people did not want it . |
| 6 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 7 | People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was . |
| 8 | Most of our local people do not want to be tied into packages , ’ says assistant manager Tracey Johnson . |
| 9 | She quite understandably declares that many people do not want to be ‘ involved in this unpleasantness ’ . |
| 10 | I wonder if any Golf Monthly readers could explain to me why golf manufacturers and club professionals are under the illusion that left-handed people do not want to play golf ; or , if they do , then they are able and willing to use right-handed clubs . |
| 11 | These people do not want to remain in Bosnia-Hercegovina , they wish to join Croatia , a dream they share with the Croat president Franjo Tudjman . |
| 12 | People do not want standards that tie companies down comprehensively or that rule out the use of judgment . |
| 13 | People do not want to be led by someone moaning that the press is unfair . |
| 14 | Thus , while painting and decorating courses have rather faded because people do not want ex-prisoners inside their houses to decorate them , it is apparently much more acceptable to have an ex-prisoner in your house to repair your word-processor . |
| 15 | In other areas , especially work , most people do not want to renounce enough of their instinctual satisfactions necessary to produce the wealth . |
| 16 | Young people do not want to live in them , when as often as not work means agriculture or nothing . |
| 17 | People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . |
| 18 | In fact , his comments seemingly invite the charge , for he describes the lack of black guardsmen in terms of feelings rather than in terms of the discourse of external factuality : ‘ People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . ’ |
| 19 | But people do not want to complain because of the stresses and strains of going public with that information . |
| 20 | Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election . |
| 21 | The British people do not want it . |
| 22 | The public opinion polls showed that three quarters of the British people do not want it . |
| 23 | Most people do not want such offences to be tolerated . |
| 24 | Many people do not want the excessive comforts ( and expense ) of bed/breakfast every night , especially young people . |
| 25 | ‘ In hard times people do not want to read the sex-and-shopping novels of the Eighties , ’ explained Kate Paterson , an editor with Century publishing . |
| 26 | Most people do not want to vote in a right-wing government so much as to get rid of a discredited and deeply unpopular Socialist government . |
| 27 | The overwhelming majority of the British people do not want to return to such Victorian values as jobs at any price . |
| 28 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |