Example sentences of "[prep] what it is like [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 2 | We all have too much experience of what it is like for council tenants trying to exercise their supposed freedom for us to lie easily with the Government 's assurances on that matter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If the public saw this film they would get a much better idea of what it is like to be disabled , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I remarked above that von Uexkull 's pictures fail to express the phenomenological quality of what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog — or , one might add , a bat ( Nagel 1974 ) . |
| 6 | Several properly ambitious philosophers attempt to bring consciousness into view by speaking , with respect to a conscious thing , of what it is like to be that thing . |
| 7 | You can get similar value from Isabelle Allende 's Of Love and Shadows which gives a vivid picture of what it is like to be on the wrong end of the dictatorial boot in Chile . |
| 8 | It was a Labour MP who painted the most graphic picture of what it is like to be out of work in Britain . |
| 9 | Curiously enough , however , these are among the very people who tend to shy away from any kind of subjective description of what being a believer is like , and one frequently finds an empathic researcher who does not believe and may even be unsympathetic giving us a greater insight into what it is like to be a member of a particular religion ( see , for example , Cashmore , 1983 ; Judah , 1974 , Westley , 1983 or Lofland , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | At the beginning of his speech , the Home Secretary went to some lengths to compare what life on this subject was like under a Labour Government in 1979 with what it is like under a Conservative Government now . |
| 11 | So I realized I could do an act based on what it is like to be me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The presentation of these case studies in the form of ‘ life stories ’ is intended to give the reader more of a ‘ feel ’ for what it is like to be a heroin user . |