Example sentences of "would like [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As education is the core subject of the Institute , the welfare of its students and new members being of paramount importance , I would like during my year of office , when visiting Divisions , that a practical demonstration be arranged in order to give encouragement and fellowship to the students and newly qualified members . |
| 2 | I can well understand M M Mr Jewitt 's concerns , erm I think the simple fact of the matter is that not a great deal of Greater York new housing demand is likely to be generated in Hambledon district , whereas in Selby district a significant amount of er demand is likely to be generated , so really by way of conclusion I I would like through you to ask Mr Mr Jewitt if his opposition to the new settlement is as a matter of principle , or whether he 's really stating the case for Hambledon district , in other words , would he object to a new settlement in Selby district ? |
| 3 | Sometimes you have access to a text , but not to all the information you would like about it . |
| 4 | I would like to be an ACET volunteer so what do I do now ? |
| 5 | However , the State President is not as confident as he would like to be . |
| 6 | All the time I would like to be somewhere else , someone else . |
| 7 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 8 | ‘ If there is no room here , there is plenty up on the hill , and where do you think I would like to be ? ’ |
| 9 | He thought he would like to be more like her ; when she spoke people listened . |
| 10 | All major sports would like to be the centre of a school 's curriculum . |
| 11 | In any future release , two welcome refinements would be the simultaneous inclusion of source and load resistances in divider computations ; and audio and communications designers would like to be able to toggle divider ratios and percent error , to read out in dB voltage ( log20 ) and maybe power ( log10 ) deciBels . |
| 12 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 14 | KYLIE MINOGUE Enjoy Yourself ( PWL Records HF9 ) According to a poll in the magazine Just 17 , Kylie Minogue is the person most young girls in Britain would like to be . |
| 15 | The Ferranti source said : ‘ Lord Weinstock ( GEC 's managing director ) would like to be in the position where he was able to say to the Ministry of Defence , ‘ Look , I am the only person who can rescue Ferranti from collapse . ’ |
| 16 | There will also be talk of a return by Boycott , who has always been open in admitting that he would like to be either cricket chairman or team manager . |
| 17 | Not so much for the platform speakers , who have arrived , but for some of the floor speakers , who have n't and would like to . |
| 18 | ‘ I said that I could not commit myself as my academic time was not yet finished , but I would like to be at their disposal later . ’ |
| 19 | Then , quite out of the blue at the end of 1983 , they had a letter from the Palace saying that the Princess had decided she would like to be their patron . |
| 20 | Any parishioner who would like to be present should phone Valerie Belton as soon as possible to see if a coach ( or two ) should be booked . |
| 21 | Keith at Smile in London would like to be ‘ shaving hair into strong shapes , styles that are forward-looking and not Sixties . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 24 | There 's a stubborn clinging to bad habits that benign social planners and therapists would like to ‘ liberate ’ us from , an obstinate refusal to ‘ move on up ’ and make something of oneself . |
| 25 | That 's why she is a bit nervous ; she would like to be alone with him , without Paul , and she does n't quite know how to arrange it . |
| 26 | ‘ I would like to farm , and to earn a reasonable income from it . |
| 27 | I would like to be away from here , I am not too old for new surroundings , not so old that I feel dread and insecurity in the prospect of a change . |
| 28 | ‘ Personally I would like to be taller , but certainly not curvier . |
| 29 | I am the sort of person , I would like to be a bus driver , work in a nursery . |
| 30 | ‘ I have always thought that I would like to be a fashion designer . |