Example sentences of "would [verb] wished " in BNC.
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| 31 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 32 | For the reformers ' vision of a fully-developed hierarchy , each man with his own sphere of competence , all subject to canon law and all beneath the discipline of the papal rod , evoked a mixture of admiration and envy in those laymen , accustomed to deference , whose position in the ecclesiastical scheme was lower than they would have wished . |
| 33 | The growing girl did not see as much of her mother as she would have wished and less of her father . |
| 34 | Caballé , and from the past Johanna Gadski , who rather unexpectedly comes to mind more than once ) , and in ‘ O patria mia ’ the high C , the As too , are louder than one would have wished . |
| 35 | Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended . |
| 36 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 37 | The king extracted grants of subsidies only with difficulty and was forced to concede more than he would have wished to both clergy and laity in return . |
| 38 | A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 . |
| 39 | It is what your mother would have wished . ’ |
| 40 | It was what she would have wished for me : her sister , her friend . |
| 41 | She said , and she 's right , dammit , that Father would have wished — that she expected … . |
| 42 | The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished . |
| 43 | We shall destroy the parasites that remain as the General would have wished ! ’ |
| 44 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 45 | He got up and did what Ivan would have wished him to do . |
| 46 | It will frustrate the cussedness of the officials who , this year , closed down the passenger lifts on the stroke of 4 o'clock — exactly the moment at which many people on Levels 1 and 2 would have wished to use them as they carried packages down to the exit . |
| 47 | It came to me that my mother was proud of her friendship with this high-spirited outcast , and I felt resentment as I thought of my own upbringing , of the fuss when my school reports were n't all that my mother would have wished , of the scene when once I had sworn . |
| 48 | An early lunch and a failure to return to the office afterwards was not how Derek would have wished to start the week at Fithyan & co . |
| 49 | Again the shadow was in her eyes , and Fergus , who would have wished to know more of this , felt her retreat a little from him . |
| 50 | Well , at those prices I 'm sure none of us would have wished to accompany the old snob . |
| 51 | Later , at the Technical Institute in Leghorn , his aptitude for experimental physics was developed , though his attainment was insufficient for him to enter the university or the naval academy , as his father would have wished . |
| 52 | He was concerned that the room must be left just as Durance would have wished . |
| 53 | This will lead to revenue short-falls for the period and consequently less cash flow than the industry would have wished . |
| 54 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 55 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 56 | Louisa was held by those urgent eyes , drawn more deeply than she would have wished into the darkness behind . |
| 57 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 58 | ‘ It is what your father would have wished . ’ |
| 59 | You can tell him it is what his father would have wished him to do . ’ |
| 60 | And this costly project was being undertaken through a strong sense of duty to what he believed his father would have wished him to do . |