Example sentences of "does not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty International does not want to hear any more excuses , from governments or from anybody else . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 4 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 5 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 6 | OPINIONS were mixed on yesterday 's announcement that Chris Patten does not want Foxley Wood to proceed . |
| 7 | For understandable reasons , neither side is prepared to proclaim the change too loudly : the left hates admitting defeat , while the right does not want to offend too many loyal party members by appearing triumphalist . |
| 8 | It does not want to move up until the tax rules for BES investments have been fulfilled in January . |
| 9 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 10 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 11 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
| 12 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is an expectation that they can earn their way into the labour market but the labour market does not want them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’ |
| 17 | Foley does not want the permanent job , saying : ‘ I again regard it as a short-term business . ’ |
| 18 | But it 's emotionally draining living here with someone who does not want to be here . ’ |
| 19 | He says he does not want to privatise loss-making state industries , or change the labour laws that make it virtually impossible for an employer to fire any employee . |
| 20 | The government wants to tighten immigration controls , but it does not want to be seen as anti-Semitic . |
| 21 | On the other hand he does not want to jeopardise his shadowy courtship of Indonesia 's 160m Muslims . |
| 22 | Newspapers like Moscow News and Nezavisimaya Gazeta ( Independent Newspaper ) busily report what the president does not want to hear . |
| 23 | He says he wants a compromise acceptable to Britain and its partners — which means he does not want to stop other countries moving towards EMU . |
| 24 | Mr Mieno does not want to let up until he is sure the job is done . |
| 25 | The region 's problems are mainly political , in his view , and he does not want more strains on the Community budget . |
| 26 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 27 | Iraq does not want yet another enemy . |
| 28 | Its leaders say it does not want to be responsible for any disturbances . |
| 29 | His term ends on December 31st and he does not want another one . |
| 30 | Mr Breeden does not want Congress to give him new law — and subject his agency to the crossfire of vested interests that this would involve — until the courts have tested whether existing law is sufficient . |