Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |
| 2 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 3 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 4 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 5 | They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions . |
| 6 | ‘ We accept that some of the gypsies , the traditional travellers , do not want to be settled and wish to remain mobile . |
| 7 | The bigger nations , for their part , have already developed systems of takeover supervision , and do not want to be encumbered with another layer of M&A bureaucracy . |
| 8 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 9 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 10 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 11 | They will not want to be inhibited by arms control treaty commitments . |
| 12 | EFTA does not want to be a ‘ kindergarten ’ for East European countries embarking on the path to market economies , but the looser 23-nation Council of Europe — to which Hungary has already sought entry — might be asked to play this role once democratic elections are held in individual east European countries . |
| 13 | But it 's emotionally draining living here with someone who does not want to be here . ’ |
| 14 | Most of our local people do not want to be tied into packages , ’ says assistant manager Tracey Johnson . |
| 15 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 16 | The government wants to tighten immigration controls , but it does not want to be seen as anti-Semitic . |
| 17 | Its leaders say it does not want to be responsible for any disturbances . |
| 18 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 19 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 20 | He did not want to be small . |
| 21 | You do not want to be hungry . |
| 22 | Some of the things we have listed ( such as Weetabix or baked beans ) have sugar in them anyway so ideally you do not want to be adding even more sugar to breakfast meals . |
| 23 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 24 | Reports from the Wehrmacht ‘ Armaments Inspectorates ’ claimed that workers on reserved occupations in armaments factories did not want to be left out of the army and were pressing to join up . |
| 25 | He will obviously not want to be caught , and when he is , any number of problems may become apparent . |
| 26 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 29 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 30 | She did not want to be rude to him . |