Example sentences of "they would [verb] to have " in BNC.

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1 He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’
2 ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’
3 One in eight said they would prefer to have the instalments collected individually .
4 The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have .
5 The Cambodians felt they would prefer to have an exhibition in Australia first , therefore we had to bring the date of the exhibition forward ’ .
6 When they also indicated that they would prefer to have one central point of communication for their dealings with the Nationalist camp , it was clear that the question of leadership must be resolved at once .
7 At Manhattan 's Fulton fish market in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge , fishmongers pay about $1.40 to have 100lb of fish carried across South Street — the same price they would pay to have it carried all the way from the Gulf of Mexico .
8 As Western governments struggle from decision to decision , making up instant policies as they react , the need is for vision and imagination : a willingness to think the previously unthinkable , to sort out in their minds what sort of Europe they would like to have created in 10 years ' time .
9 Children can be involved in the design of these and consulted about the sort of games that they would like to have organised for them in break times .
10 With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen .
11 This problem is certainly not restricted to mathematics and the program designer and teaching team should consider very carefully the various presentations they would like to have available .
12 Some organisations print a sheet of miniature photographs so that editors may choose which , if any , they would like to have .
13 Similarly , when in the late 1930s a leading obstetrician asked women in Aberdeen how many children they would like to have , he received the response : ‘ Aye Doctor , I shall have me number ’ .
14 I want to ask the Minister why his two Back-Bench colleagues from Wolverhampton did not nominate the schools which they would wish to see closed or from which they would like to have surplus places taken away .
15 That is the kind of approach that they would like to have again at Westminster .
16 Goodey has reported and concluded , that as long as they get their hundred per cent minimum requirement they can still go on their contribution holidays , and many and my scheme members feel that this is just a it 's a freebie as far as they 're concerned and scheme members do n't do not benefit from the surplus and they would like to have seen or preferred to have seen
17 they would like to have it back and so
18 ‘ We have sent letters to everyone we believe has been in contact with the doctor but if anyone else feels they would like to have a test to put their mind at rest they should contact us . ’
19 er Apollo Leisure had decided that they would like to have arts and science under the same roof , er the arts has been something that 's considered an acceptable cultural pastime , and people will go out at weekends , take the family and will do something that , they would look at an exhibition , er or they would go to the theatre , whereas in science , there is n't really anything that you can do as a social or cultural pastime .
20 Their legs would need to be proportionately stronger , more like a reptile 's or a mammal 's , in which case they would need to have the metabolism of either a reptile or a mammal .
21 Consequently , no attempt was made to provide an interview schedule such as that developed by Labov ; fieldworkers were simply briefed on the kind of social information ( such as occupation , educational background , family connections and previous residence of speaker ) which they would need to have acquired by the end of the observation period .
22 I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement .
23 Answer guide : In order to protect their current interests they would need to have an equal number of ordinary shares .
24 However , with their formidable array of entertaining and experienced batsmen they would look to have a distinct chance in two the one-day competitions .
25 For the Tories to have any credibility as trustees of the environment they would have to have to change the whole basis of their philosophy .
26 If he brought her any more , then they would have to have a little talk .
27 Those clamps had to be locked at the Air Force base where they were loaded So they would have to have a key there .
28 For they would have to have escaped the very apparatuses which constitute subjects , and thus would not be subjects at all .
29 I was sep separate and apart from that , they would have to have a operating room and a dispensary there , you see that 's what they would have to have , I mean , if there gon na have P D S A premises , this is what you 've got to have , cos very often the animal has to be put under and all sorts of things , you know what I mean , it would n't be just an office with say like a physician and a tenants , it would be a case of a , a surgery and things in that nature which would be required by , er quite a number of animals .
30 I was sep separate and apart from that , they would have to have a operating room and a dispensary there , you see that 's what they would have to have , I mean , if there gon na have P D S A premises , this is what you 've got to have , cos very often the animal has to be put under and all sorts of things , you know what I mean , it would n't be just an office with say like a physician and a tenants , it would be a case of a , a surgery and things in that nature which would be required by , er quite a number of animals .
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