Example sentences of "of what it is [prep] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ If the public saw this film they would get a much better idea of what it is like to be disabled , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a Labour MP who painted the most graphic picture of what it is like to be out of work in Britain . |