Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wiggins added he would rather have seen road fund duty — raised from £110 to £125 — scrapped and replaced with even more substantial hikes in petrol prices than the 12p a gallon ( unleaded ) and 15p ( leaded ) set yesterday . |
| 2 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |
| 3 | What I would most like to see again , at greater leisure , is Rabat , or Mdina , the Silent City , a citadel town of car-free streets filled with palazzi , churches and tiny squares . |
| 4 | In a recent survey , finance directors were asked what change they would most like to see in corporate governance . |
| 5 | What would most like to see happen in the game : |
| 6 | Seventy-one per cent of respondents wrote and said that the change they would most like to see was ‘ equality of opportunity ’ . |
| 7 | There is only the odd passing comment on what makes a film or TV programme politically effective , how form and content might combine to produce the politically challenging and provocative programmes that the left would presumably like to see . |
| 8 | I would so like to see Alida lead a fuller life , less anxious and restrained . |
| 9 | I would so like to see her make some new friends . ’ |
| 10 | Anyone entering from outside would only have seen Jim with his feet up in front of the fire , reading a thriller . |
| 11 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 12 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 13 | I equally do n't want to sail into something that is er pretty undesirable and as my Noble Friend Lord Boyd-Carpenter says if we do that then almost certainly I do n't know I may be completely wrong , I 've got enormous faith in the my Right Honourable from my Noble Friend the Chief Whip and even more f faith in all my friends beh behind me whom I know will er go in , in the right direction because they think so erm superb , but My Lords er I would obviously like to see whether there is any way in which we can bridge this divide . |
| 14 | Clutterbuck was an architect manqué himself and would obviously have seen their pattern books , including the one from which this design derives : Chinese and Gothick Architecture Properly Ornamented . |
| 15 | I would personally like to see more erm sort of grading of erm more , more higher standards being set by the sort of head offices of people who own things like chains of motorway service areas , not catering for the lowest common denominator , but aiming to really have an absolutely top quality service , cleanliness , everything , in all parts of their business . |
| 16 | However , if there is something you would especially like to see , please phone to be sure it will be happening on the day of your visit . |
| 17 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 18 | They would not proscribe the teaching of fine art , archaeology or music — but would much prefer to see British colleges turning out many more vocation-ally-trained graduates in science , technology and business management . |
| 19 | I would just like to see more diversity of people and styles . |
| 20 | It 's just a pity that the castle itself is a little bit indistinct I mean , when you stand away from it you ca n't er you can hardly see the castle there and er , it is an attractive castle , photographed many times but I would just like to see that shown up a little more in the picture . |
| 21 | But I I would just like to see how awful the graphic |
| 22 | An and I must admit that I would n't , I would not expect to see anybody delegated within the contract at less than M S one level . |
| 23 | Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again . |
| 24 | Who would not thrill to see Alderman Foodbotham of Bradford rise at last from the mountain tomb at Northowram , where he lies awaiting the summons of destiny , to assume the united crown of Deira and Elmet , and soon , in his irresistible advance , the crown of all Northumbria ? |
| 25 | Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’ |
| 26 | Once broken , they can only be removed by cutting through the fingerboard , a painful and delicate process which I for one would not want to see . |
| 27 | just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this . |
| 28 | We would not want to see the scheme a held up or at least , the timetable that we could set down . |
| 29 | She would not want to see you again . ’ |
| 30 | You only saw the f oh now oh right so , hands up who saw it all the way through and would not want to see it again as part of the seminar . |