Example sentences of "like to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to be an ACET volunteer so what do I do now ? |
| 2 | However , the State President is not as confident as he would like to be . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the time I would like to be somewhere else , someone else . |
| 5 | I 'd really like to be able to speak like you , you know . |
| 6 | ‘ If there is no room here , there is plenty up on the hill , and where do you think I would like to be ? ’ |
| 7 | He thought he would like to be more like her ; when she spoke people listened . |
| 8 | All major sports would like to be the centre of a school 's curriculum . |
| 9 | In any future release , two welcome refinements would be the simultaneous inclusion of source and load resistances in divider computations ; and audio and communications designers would like to be able to toggle divider ratios and percent error , to read out in dB voltage ( log20 ) and maybe power ( log10 ) deciBels . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 11 | KYLIE MINOGUE Enjoy Yourself ( PWL Records HF9 ) According to a poll in the magazine Just 17 , Kylie Minogue is the person most young girls in Britain would like to be . |
| 12 | I do like to be able to pick a fish up by its head , ’ William Black said , waving a sea bass in rigor mortis at me , before going on to inspect its gills . |
| 13 | The Ferranti source said : ‘ Lord Weinstock ( GEC 's managing director ) would like to be in the position where he was able to say to the Ministry of Defence , ‘ Look , I am the only person who can rescue Ferranti from collapse . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 15 | There will also be talk of a return by Boycott , who has always been open in admitting that he would like to be either cricket chairman or team manager . |
| 16 | ‘ I said that I could not commit myself as my academic time was not yet finished , but I would like to be at their disposal later . ’ |
| 17 | Because they 're British , because their character is independent , because they do n't like to be shoved around , because they are prepared to take responsibility … |
| 18 | I know I speak for us all when I say there 's no one here who would n't like to be in your shoes tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd really like to be in there . |
| 20 | Then , quite out of the blue at the end of 1983 , they had a letter from the Palace saying that the Princess had decided she would like to be their patron . |
| 21 | Any parishioner who would like to be present should phone Valerie Belton as soon as possible to see if a coach ( or two ) should be booked . |
| 22 | Keith at Smile in London would like to be ‘ shaving hair into strong shapes , styles that are forward-looking and not Sixties . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 25 | I 'd like to be on the lovely buses . |
| 26 | You 'd like to be capable of violence … |
| 27 | If you think you 've got it bad now , how would you like to be paid six shillings a ton to collect pebbles along the cold surf in Norfolk ? |
| 28 | That 's why she is a bit nervous ; she would like to be alone with him , without Paul , and she does n't quite know how to arrange it . |
| 29 | She did n't like to be deprived of her drama . |
| 30 | He did not like to be contradicted . |