Example sentences of "what [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 | What 'll it be like when the public come through the door ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What does that come to , without doing it , what would it be as a decimal ? |
| 14 | What would it be like to be In Love with Dionne rather than just loving her ? |
| 15 | A return seemed unlikely , but at the same time there was this intriguing question : just what would it be like to be up there , 20 pitches out , on a wall as hard as many a belted route , but with no bolts ? |
| 16 | In a few generations , of course , people would want girls again , and values and fashions would change … but in the meantime , what would it be like to be one of an endangered species ? |
| 17 | What would it be like to be black and watch the election result in Cheltenham ? |
| 18 | ‘ We started from scratch by saying that if we had a brand new game called rugby what would it be like ? |
| 19 | What would it be like to make these conflicting roles , these painful feelings visible ; to feel free from the demands to please others ? |
| 20 | What would it be like to be Emma Watt , fifty years old , sad and alone and brightly squeezed into her too-small flat ? |
| 21 | What would it be like to be the purple girl , frigid from anxiety , and child-bearing behind her ? |
| 22 | He wondered , what would it be like to fall in love with Immacolata ? |
| 23 | What would it be like to feel those lips stray over her body in warm and tender exploration ? |
| 24 | What would it be like to feel the weight of that lean , powerful body on hers , and lie skin to skin against him ? |
| 25 | What would it be like to explore and learn every inch of him with her fingertips , to touch and taste him and fill her lungs with the delicious musky scent that was uniquely his ? |
| 26 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 27 | What would it be like and fourthly , is this poem there to human beings . |
| 28 | What will it be for that clef ? |
| 29 | ‘ What will it be like ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 30 | What will it be like ? |