Example sentences of "[modal v] like to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I should like to be your wife . ’ |
| 2 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 3 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 4 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 5 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ she admitted and then added shyly , ‘ I — I should like to be painted . ’ |
| 7 | The Chancellor , Kenneth Clarke , declared in his Mansion House speech that he ‘ should like to be remembered as a Chancellor who helped British industry and British commerce through another difficult period and helped to make a difference to the wealth creating capacity of the nation . ’ |
| 8 | I know that the Combined Heat and Power Association recently submitted a report to OFFER pointing out some institutional and administrative barriers that it should like to be tackled . |
| 9 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 10 | That is something which we should like to be changed in the future . |
| 11 | There is a meeting of the Parish Council on 16th July and I should like to be able to bring your reply to that meeting . |
| 12 | ‘ If I have misused another of your American idioms , ’ he said stiffly , ‘ I should like to be so informed . ’ |
| 13 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 14 | If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with : |
| 15 | If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with : |
| 16 | English tourists might like to be reminded that the ghastly visitor centres , the scant toilet facilities and the gruesome catering in the West Highlands of Scotland are there to get you back for the fact you won . |
| 17 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 18 | Do you think Natalie might like to be a Rainbow when she 's five ? ’ |
| 19 | person you might like to be but actually unfortunately are n't . |
| 20 | If he 's coming he might like to be |
| 21 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 22 | When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’ |
| 23 | When choosing books teachers may like to be reminded of the various published book guides , for example those published by the Federation of Children 's Book Groups , the Signal Book Guides , the Penguin Book Guides and Exploring Poetry 5 to 8 ( NATE ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 25 | I 'd like to be on the lovely buses . |
| 26 | You 'd like to be capable of violence … |
| 27 | ‘ Look , ’ he said at last , ‘ the point is , I 'd like to be your friend . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , like all the other times I 've spoken to you , I 'd like to be put through to Mr Roirbak . ’ |
| 29 | He has this image in his head of the kind of person he 'd like to be , it 's a cartoon character … something about 2000 AD . |
| 30 | Also I 'd like to be taller and be able to afford to spend more money on clothes that would ‘ express my personality ’ . |