Example sentences of "it [is] like to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't know what it 's like to be a lonely artist , wandering gipsy , bum … oh , I know I 'm no good , you do n't need to tell me … look , can you … what kind of trouble ? |
| 2 | On the other hand , when you go abroad to a country where you 're completely unrecognized , you 're reminded what it 's like to be a member of the public , and that can be very sobering — life without the smiles and knowing looks . |
| 3 | Have you ever thought seriously about what it 's like to be a ghost ? |
| 4 | She 's simply being as welcoming and hospitable as I 've always heard the Taiwanese are , and trying to help me feel at home and among friends because she knows what it 's like to be a newcomer in a foreign city herself . ’ |
| 5 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 6 | ‘ Is that what it 's like to be a mechanical man ? ’ |
| 7 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 8 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 9 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 10 | Not only do they fail to express what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog , but they also fail to articulate the specific psychological functions involved . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | As Nagel points out , the problem in understanding what it is like to be a bat rests on the difficulty of matching different subjectivities . |
| 13 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 14 | Curiously enough , however , these are among the very people who tend to shy away from any kind of subjective description of what being a believer is like , and one frequently finds an empathic researcher who does not believe and may even be unsympathetic giving us a greater insight into what it is like to be a member of a particular religion ( see , for example , Cashmore , 1983 ; Judah , 1974 , Westley , 1983 or Lofland , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | Although obviously a very experienced and skilful pilot , David Mason has not forgotten what it is like to be a raw student , and there is a streak of dry humour in his observations of each stage of the training process . |
| 16 | The presentation of these case studies in the form of ‘ life stories ’ is intended to give the reader more of a ‘ feel ’ for what it is like to be a heroin user . |
| 17 | The consciousness of a bat is what it is like to be a bat , that way of being . |
| 18 | That is no more what it is like to be a bat than the following is a good picture of what it is like to see colour : use an instrument to measure the wavelength of the light that is entering your eye : if it is long , you are seeing red , if it is short you are seeing violet or blue . |
| 19 | Indeed , if I were forced to try the impossible , to imagine what it is like to be a bat , I would guess that echolocating , for them , might be rather like seeing for us . |