Example sentences of "would [not/n't] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly would not want to attempt a summary of the route we have taken all the way from the mind-body problem to children trying to win chocolates ; but I do need to make some concluding comments to justify the bold claim in the first paragraph that constructivism makes the mind-body problem less intractable . |
| 2 | One would not want to suggest that the academics who contribute to the New Accents series ( or who write similar texts ) can not read French with ease . |
| 3 | Either they do not want to run the risk of miscarriage ( about one in 100-200 ) which the procedure entails ; or they would not want a termination even if the baby was found to be disabled . |
| 4 | As Gatfield says , ‘ I would not want to sign an artist who demands much moulding . |
| 5 | Rachel would not want to hear . |
| 6 | Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’ |
| 7 | If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’ |
| 8 | There , many Europeans could hardly believe their ears with the excuses of why the British would not want to sign a European Charter on Environment and Health . |
| 9 | She may fall ill , or have an accident while you were out , or set the house on fire and herself , so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping . |
| 10 | For a country the size of England , such a tiny league would be a waste of resources and Cooke , presumably , would not want to attend second division games , even to view players such as Nottingham 's Martin Pepper , a flanker of England quality . |
| 11 | ‘ If you were my daughter , I would not want you soiling your hands with this lot . ’ |
| 12 | You would not want that ! |
| 13 | There were a number of horror stars looking for work who would not want the earth in salaries , and he assembled a notable team of players which included Vincent Price , Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre . |
| 14 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 15 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 16 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 17 | The headmaster thought him a prime example of naughtiness , but Herbert responded that if the staff were doing their job properly , little boys would not want to run away . |
| 18 | I would not want to direct it , but I do think it would be a shame if Lacan , Althusser , Freud and Foucault yet again were allowed to bag the best parts . |
| 19 | He and Sara would not want much , and sixteen shillings a week would be enough to keep them , money which Coleridge intended to earn by reviewing . |
| 20 | Old friends would not want to know us , perhaps frightened that we would become a burden upon them . |
| 21 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |
| 22 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 23 | As for harmonic connections , I would not want to produce these too consciously . |
| 24 | That having been said , I would not want to be without the very special qualities of this new Teldec release — a most moving interpretation brilliantly performed . |
| 25 | Although he now lives far from the art and theatre world of London on which he thrived for so long , Milligan would not want more arts in the countryside . |
| 26 | Soon even Rose would not want toys anymore . |
| 27 | On page 12 Whit Deschner explains why you would not want to go to this prime honeypot river . |
| 28 | He would not want a nose like that . |
| 29 | I want his mates to hear the gospel and besides that Billy would not want a sad funeral , so I think you should preach , Dad . ’ |
| 30 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |