Example sentences of "would have preferred " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length . |
| 2 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 3 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 4 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 5 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 6 | The buoyant economy at the end of the eighties of course helped in part by increasing road congestion , forcing many to take the train who would have preferred to drive . |
| 7 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 8 | Many would have preferred Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 10 | For one who was nervous with aristocrats , it was unusual that he made a special friend in the diocese of the hereditary lay leader of the Anglo-Catholics in England : the Earl of Halifax at Garrowby , whom he would have preferred to Churchill as a war leader . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ Karl smiled , ‘ I would have preferred to go sooner but yes I can stay . |
| 12 | Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness . |
| 13 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 14 | Many would have preferred America . |
| 15 | ‘ We are toasting missing colleagues who were with us in the buffet and who would have preferred us to do it this way , instead of being sombre , ’ said Mr Christopher Reeves , a consultant engineer who joined the train at Southampton Parkway station . |
| 16 | We would have preferred a six-month trial period and controls to prevent abuses . ’ |
| 17 | In operational planning , the Declaration of Common Purpose , which Macmillan would have preferred to have called the Declaration of Interdependence , led to even closer relations between the British and American air forces . |
| 18 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |
| 19 | Both Weighell and Buckton would have preferred more , but the statement persuaded them that the Government did have its heart in the future of the railway system . |
| 20 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 21 | He would have preferred a showdown with Gina , but it was fun to watch Eleanor fighting her by stealth . |
| 22 | But they did educate the public on a subject which it would have preferred to ignore . |
| 23 | I would have preferred this afternoon but it seems he is riding in three races at Wincanton . ’ |
| 24 | I remembered the way Harry had laced the coffee after the ditch , and would have preferred that , on the whole . |
| 25 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 26 | He also grew increasingly accessible , happy to respond to all but the silliest questions , even if some would have preferred an aloofness closer to Mr Kinnock 's campaign style . |
| 27 | WHILE the European Commission refused to give any public reaction to the Tories ’ victory , senior Brussels bureaucrats made little secret of the fact that they would have preferred a more pliable Labour government . |
| 28 | Some , no doubt , would have preferred John Cox to have ‘ made it relevant to today ’ by setting his production in contemporary Croatia , perhaps , with Kalashnikovs in place of crossbows . |
| 29 | He makes a good point there , though I would have preferred Craig Redpath , the swashbuckling Melrose full-back , as back-up for Gavin Hastings . |
| 30 | It is no secret that many business leaders would have preferred a new assertive Chancellor . |