Example sentences of "it be [prep] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What would it be like to be In Love with Dionne rather than just loving her ?
2 ‘ If this is what it 's like to be under your protection , I 'd bloody well like to know what would happen if I were n't ! ’
3 I hope this article has given you some insight into what it 's like to be on the receiving end of your cichlid queries .
4 ‘ But I would never set out to hurt anybody because I know what it 's like to be on the receiving end . ’
5 He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) .
6 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 .
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 Anyone who has been to watch the Ryder Cup at The Belfry will know what it is like to be in a large crowd when there are only four matches on the course .
9 h ) company experience with forecasting : the more that a company , large or small , can build up forecasting information and experience , the more successful it is like to be in achieving effective forecasts .
10 This was to keep alive , in boys whose privileged background might have encouraged complacent acceptance rather than active pursuit of power , a keen appreciation of what it was like to have it , and what it was like to be without it .
11 ‘ One day you 'll simply have it , and then you wo n't remember what it was like to be without it . ’
12 Lupus of Ferrières reveals something of what it was like to be within close range of Charles .
13 Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening .
14 What it was like to be in the hot seat in front of his permanent sub-committee was described by the editor of the New York Post , James Wechsler : ‘ The grand inquisitor was by turns truculent , contemptuous and bland .
15 Four months after he was cleared on appeal , David Reed tells Liz Fisher what it was like to be in the dock
16 Based on his wartime diaries , Ron records what it was like to be in the nose of a Lancaster at night over Germany , and to be the radar eyes in the navigation cabin .
17 The context of the partisan struggle was altered as a result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , which modified the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , created new issues for the government as England became involved in major European warfare , and transformed the relationship of the two parties towards the Court as the Whigs came to hold political power for the first time and the Tories discovered what it was like to be in opposition .
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