Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [pron] [vb mod] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In exactly the same way , congenitally blind people can understand the physics of vision , but are unable to conceive what it would be like to experience seeing , for example , different colours . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You who read me , he concluded , you who think you understand me , must try to imagine what it would be like not to understand me . |
| 4 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 5 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 6 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His blue eyes invited her to imagine what it would be like ( which she did , and found the thought quite pleasing ) . |
| 9 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 10 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
| 11 | He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh . |
| 12 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 13 | The same age as myself , thought Juliet as she read , and tried to imagine what it would be like . |
| 14 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |
| 15 | If you know they have always enjoyed close companionship until they finally had to live alone , it is not difficult to imagine what it must be like for them to have no one to share their life with any longer , and no hand to hold as their step becomes less sure . |
| 16 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 17 | He could hardly begin to imagine what it must be like for her — everything severed , no turning back , the entire texture of her life abandoned for the deep terror of the new . |
| 18 | He has not , therefore , had that much time to imagine what it will be like . |
| 19 | England captain David Platt says the whole team is eager for the game , but admits : ‘ It seems weird , it 's hard to imagine what it will be like with a roof . |
| 20 | They were silent for a moment , Rachel trying to contemplate what it must be like to be entirely alone in the world , then , as a sudden thought hit her she glanced up . |
| 21 | ‘ She was so very young , yet she seemed to understand what it could be like , being denied the one thing you wanted . |
| 22 | When his plan is compared with Gandy 's ( Fig. 27a ) , the main difference lies in the care he has taken to consider what it might be like to live inside . |
| 23 | ‘ I dread to think what they 'll be like when Ronnie has a smile on his face — as he will when the Ports win the title back . ’ |
| 24 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 25 | It 's difficult enough dealing with you when you 're halfway normal — I dread to think what you might be like in a state of delirium . ’ |
| 26 | He tries to imagine the process by demystifying himself , in other words , by ridding himself of the fantastic in the notion of labour , and by trying to see what it would be like without the strange construction of the system of his time . |
| 27 | The three weeks that I was in the scheme for — they trained me to see if I could do the job properly , they were able to see what I 'd be like when I was doing the job . |
| 28 | He drove in silence then and I closed my eyes , pretending I was asleep , my head nodding , and all the time my mind reaching forward to the future , trying to visualise what it would be like on the boat . |
| 29 | Sloman prompts one to ask what it could be like to be an entity that controlled all existing ( presumably conscious ) human beings but had no access to what went on in their conscious minds at all , and of which , ex hypothesi , the humans themselves were not aware ? |
| 30 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |