Example sentences of "[modal v] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 2 | If she had failed to love her mother , she the missionary , what must it be like for people who , without God , had not even got a Christian obligation to try ? |
| 3 | What must it be like for Joshua ? |
| 4 | What must it be like to be imprisoned here , day after day , month after month ? |
| 5 | Sometimes , overhearing the heckling and the comments in the street , she had wondered , What must it be like , to have a man think so dirty about you ? |
| 6 | What must it be like ? |
| 7 | What must it be like to be them ? ’ |
| 8 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 9 | What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran , watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery ? |
| 10 | But what must it be like for other organisations who are now having to make money out of news . |
| 11 | If ROI , should it be on an historic or current cost-accounting basis ? |
| 12 | Should it be of happiness or of sorrow ? |
| 13 | It was not publishable as it stood , said Michael , but might it be of interest to me ? |
| 14 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |
| 15 | What 'll it be like when the public come through the door ? |
| 16 | How could it be of ethical significance that the word ‘ good ’ , considered just as a sound , is used in a certain way ? |
| 17 | When could it be of particular use to you do you think ? |
| 18 | Could it be for you ? |
| 19 | How could it be with the clown candidate Ross ‘ I 'm All Ears ’ Perot . |
| 20 | Who could it be at this hour ? |
| 21 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 22 | Could it be worth this pain ? |
| 23 | Of what interest could it be to the man where her father was born ? |
| 24 | Rest of time must have gone on fruitless speculations as to why Coventry end without similar paperwork , could it be in post room , could it be mistake of Coventry end 's secretary , did Coventry end actually have it on desk but had n't looked ? |
| 25 | It was a bit like having someone rub you with suntan cream , yet it was n't like that at all — how could it be in the dark ? |
| 26 | Could it be in Wood Street , Barnet ? |
| 27 | How could it be in my head ? |
| 28 | Ca n't it , could it be in the quality manual , rather than erm , have a procedure about how to write a proce , when to start and have a pro . |
| 29 | Could it be from Doreen ? she wondered , staring at the mauve envelope . |
| 30 | I wonder , therefore , if I could ask you to take only one copy — would it be for the IBM/CMS or the Sun/3 with UNIX configuration ? |