Example sentences of "have preferred a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Liberal cabinet the majority was against allowing the PLA and Lord Devonport to be coerced by the Transport Workers Federation into a settlement ; Lloyd George and Haldane would have preferred a minimum wage for all dock workers and disliked Devonport 's intransigence , but were outvoted . |
| 2 | If anything , the Sylvie of old would have preferred a noisy wake , frenetic dancing , a bacchic rite . |
| 3 | More than half of our first intake acknowledged that they would have preferred a traditional course , having the study of literature as its principal component . |
| 4 | I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 5 | He would have preferred a spinning wheel for her to sit at , but one had to move forward with the times . |
| 6 | The decision in G. v. G. is of course now well known , but I reiterate it , since the matter has been raised in this case , that is that even if the appellate court would itself have preferred a different conclusion it must leave the decision of first instance undisturbed unless it could say the decision was wrong . |
| 7 | Finally , only a minority of self-employed temporaries would actually have preferred a permanent job . |
| 8 | Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) . |
| 9 | We would have preferred a six-month trial period and controls to prevent abuses . ’ |
| 10 | Ideally we might have preferred a juvenile actress , but with the restrictions on the hours children can work in Television we knew we could n't do it that way . ’ |