Example sentences of "that would [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |
| 2 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 3 | That would be like a holiday in itself . |
| 4 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That would be like each doing their own version of NFS or TCP/IP and handing the advantage to Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , which has no systems management API yet , ’ warns Moss . |
| 6 | I wonder what that would be like ? |
| 7 | Goodness knows what that would be like . |
| 8 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |