Example sentences of "of [pron] it is like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have they any idea of what it is like to re-tune at 70-plus miles an hour ? |
| 2 | We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae . |
| 3 | Fury at the behaviour of the other , or at what the other symbolizes , can be a desperate attempt to get physically and emotionally closer by sharing the experience of what it is like to be battered . |
| 4 | ‘ If the public saw this film they would get a much better idea of what it is like to be disabled , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Several properly ambitious philosophers attempt to bring consciousness into view by speaking , with respect to a conscious thing , of what it is like to be that thing . |
| 7 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 8 | You can get similar value from Isabelle Allende 's Of Love and Shadows which gives a vivid picture of what it is like to be on the wrong end of the dictatorial boot in Chile . |
| 9 | We all have too much experience of what it is like for council tenants trying to exercise their supposed freedom for us to lie easily with the Government 's assurances on that matter . |
| 10 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a Labour MP who painted the most graphic picture of what it is like to be out of work in Britain . |