Example sentences of "have preferred " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself .
5 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 .
6 One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit .
7 Many would have preferred Mrs Thatcher .
8 This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster .
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 Among them was Jonathan ( no relation ) Aitken , who is hostile to the European Community and may well have preferred Mrs Thatcher 's approach to Sir Anthony 's Euro-fanaticism .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 He added : ‘ Of course , in an ideal world we should have preferred to have passports for all British nationals in Hong Kong . ’
18 We would have preferred a six-month trial period and controls to prevent abuses . ’
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 He would have preferred a showdown with Gina , but it was fun to watch Eleanor fighting her by stealth .
24 ‘ I 'd have preferred it pink , that 's more feminine like , but them dull colours , that 's just like the Princesses used to wear . ’
25 I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies .
26 But they did educate the public on a subject which it would have preferred to ignore .
27 I would have preferred this afternoon but it seems he is riding in three races at Wincanton . ’
28 He would clearly have preferred to be talking to Fiona on his other side , but the award was having to be paid for with politeness .
29 I remembered the way Harry had laced the coffee after the ditch , and would have preferred that , on the whole .
30 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 .
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