Example sentences of "would have preferred [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of a free subscription to an obscure journal ( which came with the registration fee ) many listeners would have preferred a decent abstract list — not to mention fewer unimaginative and time-worn presentations . |
| 2 | If anything , the Sylvie of old would have preferred a noisy wake , frenetic dancing , a bacchic rite . |
| 3 | It is no secret that many business leaders would have preferred a new assertive Chancellor . |
| 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 | King Hussein would have preferred a separate Palestinian delegation , he said , but " we have no objection to providing an umbrella for our Palestinian brethren " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fewer would have preferred a permanent job ( 29 per cent ) . |
| 9 | She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper . |
| 10 | We would have preferred a six-month trial period and controls to prevent abuses . ’ |
| 11 | He would have preferred a spinning wheel for her to sit at , but one had to move forward with the times . |
| 12 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 13 | He would have preferred an outdoor job . |
| 14 | Presumably they would have preferred the British people to be kept in the dark about the state of the royal marriage as they were about Edward 's love for Mrs Simpson . |