Example sentences of "what we [modal v] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What we would like to do , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe , ‘ is slow down the rate of growth because my system is full . |
| 2 | These aids are used as signals to the horse to tell him what we would like him to do . |
| 3 | Only later will they come to learn the shades of grey in which we are both what we would like and what we would prefer not to be . |
| 4 | So our company can not have 31 October 1993 as its accounting reference date , which is what we would like . |
| 5 | In fact , it is particularly important for any popular movement to avoid the all-too-tempting trap of merely asserting that the law is what we would like it to be . |
| 6 | Women in the community need to find out what is possible for us as a prerequisite to identifying what is not available and what we would like to see . |
| 7 | The railway is now business and client orientated , the work content that we go into , is decided by their requirements and not what we would like to give them . |
| 8 | ‘ That , ’ Husband said , ‘ is what we would like your Major Maxim to toddle round and tell us . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , morally we wiped the floor with them , or that is what we would like to think anyway . |
| 10 | But erm what we would like is for any of you who are actually here at that time to attend that mass and to be involved in some way , to do some sort of erm service . |
| 11 | One key feature of her method was to differentiate between ( 1 ) what we know ; ( 2 ) what we can guess or infer ; ( 3 ) what we do not know ; ( 4 ) what we would like to know in order to carry the enquiry further . |
| 12 | Erm what we would like and I 'm taking you at taking your statement er as you made it . |
| 13 | It showed that our formal control and planning mechanisms fell far short of what we would like . |
| 14 | Yeah , on tape You know this ah , it 's the , the actual letter says we would like you to do , what we would like you to do is to record all your conversations with other people except telephone conversations over a , over a one week period , erm , but that 's , that 's not , does n't quite , just need to record as much as I can . |
| 15 | But during our holiday visit we found exactly what we wanted , helped by the way Jonathan used his imagination about what we might like , even though we had n't specified it . ’ |
| 16 | But what he has to say in his tale may represent what we might like to believe such a character 's ribald attitudes towards women , towards his fellow men , and towards conventional morality would predictably be . |
| 17 | If we really could n't find anything for that , so what we 'll like , we 're gon na paint it , Anagly An Anaglypta it again |
| 18 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's what we 'd like to know . ’ |
| 20 | Well what we 'd like to do now is just try and address each of those different Four G Ls in the architecture . |
| 21 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 22 | Okay what I 'd like to do is get you to work in three syndicates looking at body language , voice tone , words , proximity , attitude , voice volume but what we 'd like to do is actually work in a syndicate that is out of style , out of keeping in your normal style . |
| 23 | Yeah well I du n no maybe I was gon na say is because what we 'd like you to do in your feedback is actually give you a feedback using the style that you were holding back on . |
| 24 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
| 25 | So having got that figure er fixed in my mind that 's what we 'd like to go for but erm and we pay thirty percent commission on all advertising sales , whatever you do however many you sell , you will get thirty percent commission and you will get it the following week , providing you do one or two things for us . |
| 26 | Erm , what we 'd like to know for for all of our sake 's really , is who we are , and where we 're from , what we 're doing here , how long have we been doing whatever it is that we 're doing here , erm where we come from , a little bit abo about our history , and any details , usual points , that you just Er , my name 's David . |
| 27 | Work work with your pair , erm , for now , and overnight , what we 'd like you do is , obviously decide for yourself your strategy , but also if you can brief your other half , as to how they need to play that role , to get you the best opportunity of practising the skills . |
| 28 | There are no conditions specifically attached under the IDO but of course we have obligations — the county minerals officer will be pursuing us for restoration quite rightly — what we 'd like to do is go beyond the basic restoration and make it much better . |
| 29 | What we 'd like them to do is come clean sit round a table and talk about running it properly |
| 30 | Sometimes I think the industry tends to focus on what we 'd like the customer to want , rather than what he or she actually wants . |