Example sentences of "imagine what it [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the immortals were capable of reproduction there would be a colossal population explosion : imagine what it would be like if every human being ever born were still alive ! |
| 2 | Imagine what it might be like if , as humans , we had not only the senses of other creatures but the ability to understand these communications as they do . |
| 3 | Imagine what it 'd be like , when it 's really cold . |
| 4 | Everyone pushes out the boat to look their best on the Big Day — so imagine what it must be like if money 's no object . |
| 5 | ‘ You imagine what it must be like yourself , that 's what I do . |
| 6 | In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known . |
| 7 | All through the short plane journey she 'd been imagining what it would be like to meet Rune again socially . |
| 8 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 9 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 10 | But mainly I 'm dreaming of that loan , writing pages and pages of pros and cons , imagining what it will be like inside the loan committee . |
| 11 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 14 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His blue eyes invited her to imagine what it would be like ( which she did , and found the thought quite pleasing ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
| 20 | He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh . |
| 21 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 22 | The same age as myself , thought Juliet as she read , and tried to imagine what it would be like . |
| 23 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |
| 24 | If you know they have always enjoyed close companionship until they finally had to live alone , it is not difficult to imagine what it must be like for them to have no one to share their life with any longer , and no hand to hold as their step becomes less sure . |
| 25 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 26 | He could hardly begin to imagine what it must be like for her — everything severed , no turning back , the entire texture of her life abandoned for the deep terror of the new . |
| 27 | He has not , therefore , had that much time to imagine what it will be like . |
| 28 | England captain David Platt says the whole team is eager for the game , but admits : ‘ It seems weird , it 's hard to imagine what it will be like with a roof . |
| 29 | ‘ I can not imagine what it would be like without it . |
| 30 | 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 ? |