Example sentences of "[det] would be like " in BNC.
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1 | For a human female this would be like having a baby in her mid-sixties . |
2 | Translated into terms of visual experience , this would be like a semi-transparent door with extra light coming in around all the cracks . |
3 | To say this would be like saying that people acquire the concept of the past by experiencing it in memory . |
4 | In an age when a symphony orchestra can appear in uniforms designed to advertise tobacco industry sponsors , conflating music and cigarettes into a single narcotic ( Guardian , 26 March 1984 : 13 ) ; when in Japan the record companies and the large industrial corporations co-operate to produce ‘ image-songs ’ which both advertise the corporations and play an important role in the hit parade ; ’ when a small selection of endlessly per mutated pop songs provides the background for almost every social activity ; when rhythm tracks on disco records can be behaviouristic ally planned and electronically produced , for maximum precision and control : one can not , at this time , avoid the feeling that if Orwell 's ‘ 1984 ’ ever arrives , it might well consist of a continuous Eurovision Song Contest ; that the ideal of the music industry would be to turn everything into muzak ( Philip Tagg 's entertaining account of the way muzak is used to ‘ programme ’ a Swedish office worker 's day gives an idea of what this would be like ( Tags 1984 ) ) . |
5 | At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish . |
6 | What you doing with the fringe then , just that 'd be like fringe . |
7 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |
8 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
9 | That would be like a holiday in itself . |
10 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
11 | ‘ That would be like each doing their own version of NFS or TCP/IP and handing the advantage to Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , which has no systems management API yet , ’ warns Moss . |
12 | I wonder what that would be like ? |
13 | Goodness knows what that would be like . |
14 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |