Example sentences of "would like [prep] [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 | All the time I would like to be somewhere else , someone else . |
| 4 | ‘ If there is no room here , there is plenty up on the hill , and where do you think I would like to be ? ’ |
| 5 | He thought he would like to be more like her ; when she spoke people listened . |
| 6 | All major sports would like to be the centre of a school 's curriculum . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Keith at Smile in London would like to be ‘ shaving hair into strong shapes , styles that are forward-looking and not Sixties . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I would like to be away from here , I am not too old for new surroundings , not so old that I feel dread and insecurity in the prospect of a change . |
| 20 | ‘ Personally I would like to be taller , but certainly not curvier . |
| 21 | I am the sort of person , I would like to be a bus driver , work in a nursery . |
| 22 | ‘ I have always thought that I would like to be a fashion designer . |
| 23 | I would like to be completely open with you , only please do n't tell my master . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , I would like to be asked to fight a marginal one day , but it would have to be local . |
| 25 | These are the sort of people whose wines deserve to do well ( and do ) entirely on their merits , and I would like to be allowed to put my faith in wine merchants such as the Kendricks or Simon Loftus of Adnams when they tell me which of their wines are eco-friendly . |
| 26 | I would like to be in my old home in the Wallowa country . |
| 27 | I 'm not sure that he would like to be described as a contacting Peter Hobson at Windyridge , Donington on Bain , Lincolnshire ( telephone : 0507 84737 ; fax : 0507 84393 ) as he dismantles fairly new vehicles . |
| 28 | If any member wishes to see a copy of the R.H.A. plans or the branches ' report or would like to be involved in any way please contact myself of Lynn Inglis . |
| 29 | I 'd be glad to hear from anyone who feels they would like to be a volunteer and I can promise many rewards from doing such a worthwhile job . |
| 30 | if you are a new mum who would like to be put in touch with another mum or feel you can offer some support 'phone me on |