Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [modal v] be [prep] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 2 | That is to say , they know what it would be like for God to exist , but as a matter of fact they do n't think that one does . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't imagine what it must be like for you . ’ |