Example sentences of "we would [verb] liked " in BNC.
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| 1 | However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate . |
| 2 | ‘ We would have liked to support Olney more , ’ said Taylor , but as Liverpool plundered the middle ground Daley became increasingly peripheral , while Ormondroyd and Platt were needed to contain rather than construct . |
| 3 | ‘ We would have liked to see you . ’ |
| 4 | However , even allowing for the fact that the population and satellite data were collected 13 years apart , the differences are greater than we would have liked . |
| 5 | ‘ We did n't get as many cars as we would have liked from funeral directors , ’ said managing director Lowrie as copySlay , ‘ but they 've got their responsibility to their trade . |
| 6 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 7 | We would have liked to build , but planning permission in Snowdonia National Park was practically nonexistent . |
| 8 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 9 | This is an important question , one which we were not able to pursue in our research as far as we would have liked . |
| 10 | I think there are certain statements that we would have liked to make and that I will try to make on behalf of the group before we get into the sort of proposals we would like to see . |
| 11 | Of course there are things that we would have liked to have seen such as multi-chapter documents and greater typeface and leading control but then there would n't have been anything to put in Version 4.0 , would there ! |
| 12 | We would have liked to have seen , however , a better finish to the deck moulding , which showed some tooling marks . |
| 13 | We would have liked to rebuild it but then we had to find places for the people to go and being a narrow valley it , most of the housing was put at the end of the town . |
| 14 | In other cases , however , inadequacy merely means that we have not go as much as we would have liked . |
| 15 | Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date . |
| 16 | All of his slides were chosen for a purpose , and were of high quality , although we would have liked a garden plan . |
| 17 | No , I think that we would have liked to have seen more women , I would have liked to have stayed on the Shadow Cabinet , and I would have liked to have seen more women in the Shadow Cabinet , but to say it 's a disaster , and somehow we 've moved away from the path we 've set ourself is simply not the case . |
| 18 | He admitted that the settlement was " not what we would have liked to have had . |
| 19 | Well , obviously we would have liked a erm a lot more oil , oil , we got the oil , ai n't we , the horses |
| 20 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 21 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 22 | But we would have liked to have seen refunds in cash . ’ |
| 23 | However , Howard Davies , the CBI 's director-general , said : ‘ We would have liked an assurance on the continuation of investment allowances and the Budget comes with a sting in the tail — future tax increases . |
| 24 | So I said , well we would have liked you to come to the full erm onty I said , but , unfortunately we were in a a very awkward position . |
| 25 | They will tend to be richer and from richer countries , rather than erm than , than the kind of cross-section that we would have liked to have before . |
| 26 | I mean , I am not playing with words when I say this , but it wo n't improve as fast as we would have liked it to do because of the financial situation . |
| 27 | Many of us would have liked to have seen the savings that were made , recycling of the passenger transport area . |