Example sentences of "[modal v] be [prep] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was what it must be like on a toboggan roaring down the snowy slope of a mountainside . |
| 2 | It 's difficult enough dealing with you when you 're halfway normal — I dread to think what you might be like in a state of delirium . ’ |
| 3 | God knows what it 'll be like in a real race . |
| 4 | I 'll be in in a minute . |
| 5 | Right get into bed , I 'll be in in a minute , Michael is he in with you ? |
| 6 | I 'm just watching T V , I 'll be in in a minute . |
| 7 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 8 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 9 | But Daedalus wonders what breathable foam would be like as a total environment . |
| 10 | If the water is very low when you are constructing your map it is worth trying to imagine what the water will be like during a winter flood . |
| 11 | England captain David Platt says the whole team is eager for the game , but admits : ‘ It seems weird , it 's hard to imagine what it will be like with a roof . |
| 12 | Banks ' and brokers ' investment in London makes any rapid exodus unlikely , but some in the City are asking what ‘ business as usual ’ will be like within a prime terrorist target — and whether the benefits of doing it there , rather than somewhere else , outweigh the costs . |