Example sentences of "do not wish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often people who share your compartment wish to relax and do not wish to indulge in polite conversation , they may just want to read a newspaper or magazine so we must respect their wishes . |
| 2 | What the layman is supposed to do the authors do not wish to contemplate . ’ |
| 3 | If Travellers Fare did not wish to provide a service on a train , there should be none ; if they closed a refreshment room , it had to lie idle for a year before a private operator was allowed to take over . |
| 4 | Where a customer did not wish to purchase his own fleet of wagons , he was usually encouraged to hire or lease from firms such as Procor or Tiphook in preference to using railway-owned vehicles . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Mallon stated that I was embarked on sweeping the RUC very clean and inferred for that reason that some senior people within the force did not wish that approach to continue . |
| 6 | The BBC , who did not wish to go live , will take recorded highlights , the two companies agreeing on the same commentators . |
| 7 | ‘ We did not wish to create conditions which led to possible violence . ’ |
| 8 | However , Mr Janman countered that ethnic minority groups did not wish to integrate with the indigenous population . |
| 9 | He argued there were provisions in the Single European Act which ensured that member states could not be obliged to accept abortion services if they did not wish to have them . |
| 10 | He did not wish to desert his Congregational cause or his Church . |
| 11 | He knew that this would disturb Archbishop Fisher , which he did not wish to do . |
| 12 | MacDonald 's reply , that he did not share that belief , is , again , an indication that he did not wish to remain as Prime Minister if his government collapsed . |
| 13 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 14 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 15 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 16 | But Feathers was to split when Hermione Farthingale decided she did not wish to continue with the group . |
| 17 | So long , and did not wish |
| 18 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 19 | Quite rightly , the Labour Party did not wish to exaggerate the importance of a fringe political group which it had investigated in a detailed national survey , based upon a circular to the secretaries of its constituency organizations in 1934 . |
| 20 | D proceeded to scratch the police — officer 's arm , having previously made it clear — in colourful language — that she did not wish to talk to the police — officer . |
| 21 | She did not wish to remain outside of her usual , blameworthy self for longer than was necessary . |
| 22 | In an extreme case an authority might decide for economic , political or cultural reasons that it did not wish to make coinage , which may explain the periods mentioned above when various states abandoned coinage . |
| 23 | Large numbers of people had wind of them , indeed opposed them , but did not wish to admit that they even knew what was going on . |
| 24 | People especially did not wish to know about the administration 's private efforts to prop up the contras . |
| 25 | What they knew , what they did n't know , and what they did not wish to know tied people in some terrible knots . |
| 26 | Mrs Browning did not wish to hold him , saying she feared her arms were not strong enough and that her cough might disturb him . |
| 27 | She did not wish to lose his approbation ; the Colonel and his wife were valuable , long-standing guests . |
| 28 | Mrs Shapland did not wish to disclose how much she received but was clearly not unhappy . |
| 29 | When I queried this , I was told that subscribers did not wish BT to divulge this information . |
| 30 | He shared the Ashby Committee 's appreciation of voluntaryism in adult education and did not wish to encourage a substantial increase in the numbers of full-time staff . |