Example sentences of "[verb] they would prefer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypergames analysis explains why they do this even though both sides say they would prefer peaceful coexistence |
| 2 | Yet if forced to make a choice , about three-quarters of teachers say they would prefer to teach boys ( Davies 1984 ) . |
| 3 | The US administration has requested the extradition of 80 traffickers , but the drug barons have said they would prefer to die in Colombia than spend the rest of their lives in US jails . |
| 4 | Not very seriously — just a hand up her dress — but they felt they would prefer a better neighbourhood . |
| 5 | The Cambodians felt they would prefer to have an exhibition in Australia first , therefore we had to bring the date of the exhibition forward ’ . |
| 6 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 7 | • only 8% of women who had children in the last 5 years said they would prefer a hospital consultant to provide their antenatal care . |
| 8 | Twenty-two out of these 29 said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care ; the remainder said they would like increased care at home . |
| 9 | All but two of these l6 said they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care . |
| 10 | How many of those who said they would prefer their husband , wife , mother , etc to go into institutional care had had this wish granted within one year ? |
| 11 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 12 | One-third of five- and six-year-olds in one study said they would prefer to be without their sibling altogether — hardly a vote of confidence in sibship . |
| 13 | Although 70% of the 135 individuals questioned said they would prefer an equivalent salary increase to most benefits , given a choice of perks , the non-contributory pension narrowly defeated a company car as favourite . |
| 14 | Of those who cared , most said they would prefer monthly . |
| 15 | However , over one in five said they would prefer weekly . |
| 16 | Mostly , these were people in lower socio-economic groups ; but it is worth noting that even in these groups people with high credit commitments , or people who said that if they had to arrange a loan it would be for a relatively large sum of money , generally said they would prefer monthly repayments . |
| 17 | Nearly one in three said they would prefer to take or post instalments themselves , each time . |
| 18 | One in eight said they would prefer to have the instalments collected individually . |
| 19 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 20 | Those who said they would prefer the smallest possible instalments , spread over a long period , were most commonly people in lower socio-economic groups , people with current credit commitments , and people with whom the amount they said they would borrow ( if they borrowed money ) was relatively small . |
| 21 | And when people in our main survey were asked how they would like to repay a loan ( Appendix 1 , Tables 47a and 47b and comments on those tables ) , the great majority said they would prefer monthly repayments , or at least would not mind ; only one in five said they would prefer weekly repayments . |
| 22 | And when people in our main survey were asked how they would like to repay a loan ( Appendix 1 , Tables 47a and 47b and comments on those tables ) , the great majority said they would prefer monthly repayments , or at least would not mind ; only one in five said they would prefer weekly repayments . |
| 23 | All also said they would prefer it if it came in a pot , rather than in the single-application , fiddly pea-sized plastic spheres . |
| 24 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 25 | But in this connection it is worth noting here that we found women even more likely than men to say they would prefer to pay extra for credit insurance , against the risk of inability to repay : credit insurance is discussed in the section immediately following this . |