Example sentences of "what it [modal v] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might not the electrodes , the constraining wires , and the very fact of being observed in a laboratory , not only delay sleep but actually alter the quality of sleep from what it might usually be at home ? |
| 2 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 3 | I just wonder whether you realise what you 're taking on — what it would really be like to live up here . ’ |
| 4 | She had heard people say it often enough — she had even said it herself — but she had not realized what it would really be like . |
| 5 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |