Example sentences of "of what it [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 2 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 3 | It does n't offer you a definition , but by the end of the chapter you should be able to give your own definition of what it would be like if you were more assertive . |
| 4 | I simply regarded these absences as a lesson , a foretaste of what it would be like when they became a permanence . |
| 5 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 6 | Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips . |
| 7 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
| 8 | So the amount available to her to spend will fall short of what it should be by the amount of that tax . |
| 9 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 10 | My sense of how to go on determined by the vividness of my imagination of what it will be like when done . |
| 11 | We are excited about this part of our course , but a bit unsure of what it will be like to work in a foreign country . |
| 12 | At least if it were pitch black we could really get an idea of what it will be like to ‘ walk through the Channel Tunnel ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The majority of the articles in this section move on from accounts of what it can be like ‘ being there ’ , to ‘ looking out ’ at some of the external issues which impinge on the teaching of mathematics in schools . |
| 15 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |