Example sentences of "would have like [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 2 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 3 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 4 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 5 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |