Example sentences of "what it would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system . |
| 2 | You who read me , he concluded , you who think you understand me , must try to imagine what it would be like not to understand me . |
| 3 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 6 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |
| 7 | I think , with having children of my own , I think what it would be like , God forbid , if that happened to one of my kids . |
| 8 | He tries to imagine the process by demystifying himself , in other words , by ridding himself of the fantastic in the notion of labour , and by trying to see what it would be like without the strange construction of the system of his time . |
| 9 | This chapter illustrates what it would be like , through the eyes of the Royal Scots . |
| 10 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 11 | McLeish knew roughly what it would be like from Francesca 's description of her own Department , but he was still interested in the controlled bustle in the big untidy room . |
| 12 | Now do you understand what it would be like if everyone was like that ? |
| 13 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 14 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 15 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 16 | That is to say , they know what it would be like for God to exist , but as a matter of fact they do n't think that one does . |
| 17 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 18 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 19 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 20 | ‘ I can not imagine what it would be like without it . |
| 21 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 22 | One day in fencing practice , he had wondered what it would be like to kill his opponent , and had done so . |
| 23 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 24 | So it seemed to be crying out to be orchestrated , and I could hear just what it would be like in my head . |
| 25 | His blue eyes invited her to imagine what it would be like ( which she did , and found the thought quite pleasing ) . |
| 26 | Ask any manager what it would be like if they lost a striker who scores 20-25 goals a season . |
| 27 | Can any of your readers imagine what it would be like to be thrown into a ‘ concentration camp ’ for 20 years without trial , and , then the door of that awful place being opened and you are told you may go ? |
| 28 | When they did get him to speak , after several days , he said , in effect : This is what it would be like if family ties were broken , and how does it feel ? |
| 29 | It does n't offer you a definition , but by the end of the chapter you should be able to give your own definition of what it would be like if you were more assertive . |
| 30 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |