Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But she was thinking more of Ianthe Broome and the man she and Penelope had seen that afternoon , and wondering what they would be like . |
| 32 | On the first night of Gentle Jack , Ken knew what they would be like . |
| 33 | But there 's no clear idea of what they will be worth or how many private sector bidders there will be . |
| 34 | yo you 're suggesting is what is happening now and so many of us he no he not just here but in population generally belong to all sorts of pressure groups erm whatever they may be like Greenpeace and many others erm really it 's , it 's a jolly hard slog , the point is that erm it the lid is on the kettle the whole time and it 's only , the only way that people can get anything done is by joining these organizations erm but it 's a very slow business erm but there 's no other way of doing anything because you ca n't change what happens at the top . |
| 35 | Most parents look at their young child and wonder what he 'll be like when he grows up . |
| 36 | So no does n't well you know what he 'll be like , he 'll be messing about all day . |
| 37 | His daughter had never seen her father and had no idea of what he would be like . |
| 38 | I found out tonight what he can be like when he 's angry . |
| 39 | Thus it is not clear what it would be like to regard all actions as requiring non-intentional explanation , and this makes it much harder for the individualist to argue that , whatever it would be like , it is out of the question . |
| 40 | Whatever it might be for you , but something that you 're going to have to be thinking about , and while you 're thinking about that you can not be thinking about work . |
| 41 | The postcode is broken down into , obviously figures and numbers , C M's , denotes sort of the Chelmsford area , or for whatever it might be in yo in your area , then you 'll come down to either twenty , eighteen , whatever that is . |
| 42 | God knows what it 'll be like in a real race . |
| 43 | You do n't know what it 'll be like , if it 'll be like the scenes you see on the news every night . |
| 44 | so er do n't know what it 'll be like . |
| 45 | what it 'll be like ? |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | When his plan is compared with Gandy 's ( Fig. 27a ) , the main difference lies in the care he has taken to consider what it might be like to live inside . |
| 48 | We can see what it might be like to have an intermittently updated world image , by using a stroboscope at night . |
| 49 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
| 50 | However , it will not provide the bumper take-out price implied by the recent performance of the Jaguar share price , offering instead some guidance as to what it might be in the future . |
| 51 | For what it may be worth , if I am wrong in my application of the neighbourhood test so that the disturbance has to be judged by pre-planning permission standards , I would have found that the heavy goods vehicles going to and from each of the fourth and fifth defendant 's operations constituted a material disturbance to the residents at night . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |