Example sentences of "[modal v] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things that a child ought to like . |
| 2 | ( I remember he once said about a Mondrian — ‘ It is n't whether you like it , but whether you ought to like it ’ — I mean , he dislikes abstract art on principle . |
| 3 | The function of government intervention is less to tell people what they ought to like than to allow them better to achieve what they already like . |
| 4 | I bet she is n't , I bet when she ought to like Father Christmas and they sort of |
| 5 | This picture goes straight to my heart ; I should like to lean against that tree between the old man and the girl and listen while the youth played . |
| 6 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 7 | I should like to deal briefly with the most important of these . |
| 8 | In conclusion I should like to ask the author if the chest had a bottom . |
| 9 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 10 | The Plowden Report on Control of Public Expenditure contained , amongst other nuggets of wisdom , the following sentence which I should like to take as my starting-point : ‘ The social changes of the last fifteen years have altered the incidence of hardship , so that there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes and inadequate ones for others . ’ |
| 11 | The institutionalisation of the social services is an interesting study in its own right , especially for Tories , who are the connoisseurs of institutions , and I should like to offer some case histories . |
| 12 | In a letter to Henry Savage on 2 December 1913 he writes : ‘ I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality , whether he admits it or not ’ ( Letters , 1 15 ) . |
| 13 | Now I should like the name and address of the authority who employ you , the name of your landlady and that of the school in which you 've been teaching . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There is one more point I should like to make . |
| 15 | He had found that even in Britain , where officials tended to be dismissive of the idea of a plan , people from private industry were receptive when he explained the Netherlands ' plan at a meeting : ‘ They said , ‘ Yes , we should like such a plan because it reduces our uncertainty . |
| 16 | I wanted to say that it was not a question of ‘ letting ’ Aunt Louise do anything ; I wanted to say I should like to see anyone trying to stop her from doing anything she had set her heart on . |
| 17 | Of course we should like to find room for everyone , but we just have n't the places . |
| 18 | ‘ I know ; sometimes I feel as if I should like to knock all their heads together . ’ |
| 19 | I should like Alida , she thought , I should be kind to her — I will be kind to her . |
| 20 | ‘ Then , with your permission , I should like to come and see Mrs Thorne myself . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I should like some more custard . ’ |
| 22 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 23 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 24 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 25 | If you 're brought up with your dad having a very strict view about what people should like , in a more severe way than my dad , then you would be bound to get worried , because your parents never say ; ‘ You look good enough ’ . |
| 26 | I should like to attend . ’ |
| 27 | Q : We should like to spend a holiday touring Scotland but , as neither of us drives , we are thinking of joining a coach tour . |
| 28 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
| 29 | We should like to know more about how participation was achieved in these projects and what was the nature of the tasks involved . |
| 30 | The terms and conditions we should like to agree are : |