Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] [verb] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to recreate something as well-known as Layla must be like trying to forge a Picasso . |
| 2 | Up Norway way IT might be worth going to see A Handful Of Time , an acclaimed Norwegian film which is part of the Norway festival starting in Newcastle next week . |
| 3 | Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species . |
| 4 | Inspection of the scatterplot suggested that it would be worth trying to fit a line ; the task is to find one which will come as near as possible to the data points . |
| 5 | It would be like trying to stop a buffalo , because he was nothing but muscle , weight and bone . |
| 6 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 7 | To put Labour in charge would be like trying to douse a fire with kerosene . |
| 8 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |