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 | That is money which the carmakers would sooner have seen invested in the business . |
| 23 | This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them . |
| 24 | Well , they were n't actually outrageous , Tod 's flares , nothing like the twin-ballgown effect we would soon start seeing on the street . |
| 25 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 26 | Her last depressing thought before she fell asleep was that Ross must have been thoroughly bored by her complete lack of sophistication , and it was extremely unlikely that he would ever want to see her again . |
| 27 | Taking souvenir pictures neither of them would ever live to see . |
| 28 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 29 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
| 30 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |