Example sentences of "would be [prep] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 2 | Adrian Henri ponders on what life would be like without his loved one — how colourless , dull and ordinary it would seem . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not imagine what it would be like without it . |
| 4 | She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them . |
| 5 | So it seemed to be crying out to be orchestrated , and I could hear just what it would be like in my head . |