Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] it be [prep] [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 | This next section takes you through an exploration of what it 's like to be assertive . |
| 10 | I 'm going to give you some idea of what it 's like to be fucked . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , I 'm sure erm Abby is , is supposed to be a fairly accurate representation of what it was like at school . |
| 12 | Once , in one of his younger sermons ( Liverpool , on John 20 : 21–2 ) , he gave a hint of what it was like with the psychologist . |
| 13 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lupus of Ferrières reveals something of what it was like to be within close range of Charles . |
| 16 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | I hope this article has given you some insight into what it 's like to be on the receiving end of your cichlid queries . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So I realized I could do an act based on what it is like to be me . |
| 21 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Have you ever thought seriously about what it 's like to be a ghost ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't even want to think about what it was like for those 52 hours when Farrah was missing . |
| 26 | Deborah Moggach talks to Olivia Abbott about what it was like to be young , embarrassed , and in Bristol |
| 27 | I saw that someone like Richard Pryor could just go out on stage and talk about what it was like to be Richard Pryor . |
| 28 | He was talking about what it was like to be unemployed and , typical John , was making his depressing position sound not too bad . |
| 29 | Do n't talk to me about what it was like in those days , she would say . |
| 30 | So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun . |