Example sentences of "[prep] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of them , Peter Cornwell , later published a sunlit retrospect of what it was like to be one of Ebor 's ordinands , and how he valued the privilege that the bishop who ordained him was a thinker , as he put it , so profound . |
| 32 | But the pleasures are , of course , those of youth , and Lewis at the age of forty seems to have forgotten what it was like to be young . |
| 33 | Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique . |
| 34 | The Sports Minister , more than most , knows what it 's like to be in with a dangerous hooker . ’ |
| 35 | THE energy secretary found out this week what it is like to be stomped on by Washington 's green lobby . |
| 36 | For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man . |
| 37 | Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening . |
| 38 | What would Keith say if he really knew what it was like to be a Slattery ? |
| 39 | What it was like to be in the hot seat in front of his permanent sub-committee was described by the editor of the New York Post , James Wechsler : ‘ The grand inquisitor was by turns truculent , contemptuous and bland . |
| 40 | ‘ I wanted to show the reader what it was like to be me . |
| 41 | In the example above , so that children might imagine what it is like to be blind , the teacher invites them to deprive themselves temporarily of their sight . |
| 42 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 43 | But this is like to be a boring trip , see you — business , just . |
| 44 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 45 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 46 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 47 | A commonplace fault among schedule designers , as mentioned earlier , is not thinking enough about what it is like to be on the receiving end of the questions . |
| 48 | The reader feels what it is like to be the member of a minority group , to live in wartime , to be handicapped , to be hopelessly in love , or to be bullied at school . |
| 49 | Had we forgotten what it was like to be young ? |
| 50 | But already she knew what it was like to be going home . |
| 51 | Fury at the behaviour of the other , or at what the other symbolizes , can be a desperate attempt to get physically and emotionally closer by sharing the experience of what it is like to be battered . |
| 52 | Deborah Moggach talks to Olivia Abbott about what it was like to be young , embarrassed , and in Bristol |
| 53 | A bit nosey , that was all , and Margaret understood what it was like to be nosey . |
| 54 | In a few generations , of course , people would want girls again , and values and fashions would change … but in the meantime , what would it be like to be one of an endangered species ? |
| 55 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 56 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 57 | This was to keep alive , in boys whose privileged background might have encouraged complacent acceptance rather than active pursuit of power , a keen appreciation of what it was like to have it , and what it was like to be without it . |
| 58 | I hope this article has given you some insight into what it 's like to be on the receiving end of your cichlid queries . |
| 59 | Grab your chance : explain what it is like to be confronted with a subject without any preparation . |
| 60 | She lifted her chilly hands into the air and proclaimed : ‘ I rrremember what it was like to be a toad . ’ |