Example sentences of "[modal v] like [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , I should like to respond to the Secretary of State and to express my thanks to my hon. Friends who have contributed positively to improving the Bill . |
| 2 | What I should like to underline in the present context is the connection between the recitals in the texts and the teleological method of interpretation . |
| 3 | I wrote out , over and over , with a calm satisfaction : " I should like to live among the leaves and heather like the birds , to wear a dress of feathers , and to eat berries . " |
| 4 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 5 | With the Institute as a theme I should like to refer to the Presidential Address of in London in 1927 who said , and I quote : |
| 6 | I have often thought that I should like to push through the House a simple single-clause Bill which would reduce death and injury at a stroke : it would be to insist that road traffic operated with signals in the same way as trains . |
| 7 | Before we proceed to consider the question as to whether there can be a Christology which is not incompatible with feminism , I should like to point to the significance of this question for Christians . |
| 8 | We never in practice achieve the homogeneity of physical properties we should like to assume in the applications of elasticity theory . |
| 9 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 10 | In that connection , I should like to quote from a letter that the Secretary of State wrote to the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) who was concerned — rightly so — about a letter that a tenant in his constituency had received from Grand Metropolitan Estates . |
| 11 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 12 | I should like to express to the House on behalf of the people whom I represent and my party our deep feeling of revulsion at what has taken place and our deepest sympathy for those who have suffered . |
| 13 | He makes some valid points that I should like to bring to the House 's attention . |
| 14 | Millie did not answer straightaway ; then , thought fully , she said , ‘ I thought I might like to go to the day school . |
| 15 | Sorry , sir , you said any time after six ; it 's only quarter past ; thought you might like to listen to the news headlines first . |
| 16 | Before you visit the Church of St Clement and the Clementinum , you might like to stop for a cup of coffee at the House of the Golden Snake . |
| 17 | I thought you might like to stop for a coffee . ’ |
| 18 | When the Archimandrite suggested that the two ladies might like to lodge at the monastery that night , she was briefly dismissive ; when he pressed his offer of hospitality further , she was brusque . |
| 19 | You might like to look at the erm the West Ham bombing map . |
| 20 | erm then erm what I 'll do I 'll pick it up next week and that will obviously show you a bit more about Abbey Life and any , any of your friends or anybody you think might , might like to look at the video erm you know just to give them an insight , people you mentioned erm to me that you perhaps know you 'd like to pass the video on to them to have a look erm and if er er you 've got my number and if you want to ring me then I can get some more videos if you think other people might be interested I 'm quite happy to pass them on , on to you as well , okay ? |
| 21 | Conservative Members might like to think about the league table that I am about to cite . |
| 22 | Readers might like to experiment with a shunting locomotive — reliable progress seems possible at scale speeds as low as 2mph on clean track . |
| 23 | At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council . |
| 24 | It was thought that their former colleagues might like to hear from the University , particularly if some improvement in the alumni services available to those who studied at Stirling years ago could be made both useful and attractive . |
| 25 | Anyone who has ever admired ‘ well kept ’ horses in immaculate stables might like to ponder on the fact that wild horses do n't : |
| 26 | THE ARBITERS of Britain 's nuclear future , now sitting at the Sizewell inquiry , might like to know of a new hazard connected with pressurised-water reactors . |
| 27 | FLORA Thompson enthusiasts might like to know about a reprint of a 56-page guide of Liphook written by her and which is certain to become a collector 's item . |
| 28 | Really sophisticated users may like to invest in the ultimate communications link between the two systems , a local area network . |
| 29 | A few FIVEs may like to listen to a reading of comic strips , regardless of whether they understand them . |
| 30 | Readers may like to think about the sort of policy interactions involved by asking themselves what would be the effects upon social life and social policy of the reintroduction of a two-year period of compulsory national service . |