Example sentences of "the [noun] will [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , when the seedlings are planted out , you will be all agog to see what the blooms will be like . |
| 2 | Your belief , as I understand it , is that we should accept not knowing what the future will be like and that we should trust in the abilities of ourselves , and of everyone else , to be surprised by what happenS , to be changed by it , and to be able to react in new ways that at present we do not know ? |
| 3 | In some ways the polytechnics will be like universities . |
| 4 | It is impossible to say how many until we know what the winter will be like . |
| 5 | ‘ What do you think the terrain will be like ? ’ |
| 6 | worries about nature versus nurture , fears that the child will be like birth parents in behaviour or temperament ; |
| 7 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 8 | Just ask yourself what the best person for the job will be like . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Driving or walking around the sculpture will be like turning a model in space — the apparent contradictions transforming themselves into new realities . |
| 11 | Unless its practices are to arise totally spontaneously out of the ‘ innate ’ qualities of the new media , it is hard to see how this is to occur or what the music will be like . |
| 12 | Although he said it is really too early to tell what life in the US will be like under President Clinton , Gates said the US economy is definitely coming back , but that it has changed . |
| 13 | This may be done on the machine if it is available , or on a simulator or on some kind of mock-up of what the system will be like . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you thought what the atmosphere will be like once the building starts ? ’ |
| 15 | The musical flavour will be supplied by Edinburgh 's own Tam White and the Caledonian Brewery are laying on some of their amber liquid and pies to give you just a taste of what the atmosphere will be like during the weekend 13–15 August . |
| 16 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |