Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb mod] like [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ Personally I would like to be taller , but certainly not curvier . |
| 4 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 5 | Just for once I 'd like to be able to do something properly , but I never will . |
| 6 | Also I 'd like to be taller and be able to afford to spend more money on clothes that would ‘ express my personality ’ . |
| 7 | When I grow up I 'd like to be … |
| 8 | ‘ But if it takes that long to sort things out I 'd like to be playing for Sunderland . |
| 9 | If it 's fine tomorrow I 'd like to be up to catch the tide . |
| 10 | Ah well I 'd like to be able to pay for what I want too you know . |
| 11 | really well you know I always think sometimes you 'd like to be sort of be crazy would n't you ? |
| 12 | As a compensation , and as a substitute for the lost narcissism of childhood , ‘ normal ’ people develop an ego ideal , a conception , more emotional than intellectual , of how they would like to be . |
| 13 | Leading journalists covering the particular sport were invited to attend the lunch and to give their views on how the sponsorship could best benefit the sport and on how they would like to be kept in the picture . |
| 14 | Asked once how he would like to be remembered , he said , ‘ for producing Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk Wood and getting Basil D'Oliveira a cricketing job in England . ’ |
| 15 | Areas where I would like to be more assertive are : |
| 16 | I believe , on the contrary , that in deciding where you would like to be , as opposed to where you are probably going to end up , you need a great deal of discussion and a great deal of development of new thinking and new processes . |
| 17 | ‘ Know where Ah 'd like to be goin' ? |
| 18 | Simply answer our question by ticking the appropriate box and then tell us in no more than 12 words why you would like to be a Clairol winner . |
| 19 | An assertiveness training programme involves a number of stages : first , understanding the underlying principles of the approach ; second , recognizing different styles of communicating ( passive , aggressive , assertive ) , third , identifying specific situations where we would like to be more assertive , whether at work , in public , among friends , or at home ; fourth , to prepare , rehearse , or role play a different , more assertive response ; and fifth , to transfer that behaviour back into the real world . |
| 20 | ‘ That is where we would like to be . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not where we would like to be . |
| 22 | Ideally one would like to be able to give a general characterisation of suitable sentence types ; unfortunately this is not at present possible . |