Example sentences of "experience of what it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are less likely to dominate than are men , because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We are not denying that in the case of an alien culture one has less right to criticize than in one 's own , out of lack of experience of what it can be like to live in it . |
| 4 | They have intimate experience of what it means to be rejected , forgotten , isolated . |
| 5 | Anyone who thinks that there must be , and that there must be a process of encoding a thought into a form of words , says so in spite of , and not because of , his experience of what it is to say things . |
| 6 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
| 7 | What I , what I li what I , what I knew about tinkers and , and that , cos there 's nobody , there 's nobody has any experience of what it was like . |
| 8 | 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 . |