Example sentences of "would [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on it is like a dream , or like thoughts of what a work would be like . |
| 2 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | JN OGILVY 1694 — he would not write ANGUS CAMERON in his cell , it would be like leaving a vital part of himself here forever . |
| 5 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For someone like me with a lot of children it would be like running a penal colony . |
| 9 | ‘ Buying Manchester United would be like buying a Van Gogh — you just can not put a value on it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |
| 11 | But life under Labour would be like a nuclear winter . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't ask me if it was a good game — it would be like asking a surgeon if it was a good operation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To go back to Pakistan again — it would be like dying . |
| 16 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 17 | This chapter illustrates what it would be like , through the eyes of the Royal Scots . |
| 18 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 19 | Its stopping would be like a death in the family . |
| 20 | ‘ It would be like having a flat of your own without the bother of preparing meals . ’ |
| 21 | When I read a book or saw a play or studied a synopsis , there came into my mental vision a fairly detailed and consecutive pattern of what the film would be like . |
| 22 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 23 | McLeish knew roughly what it would be like from Francesca 's description of her own Department , but he was still interested in the controlled bustle in the big untidy room . |
| 24 | We must look at what people would be like outside of , and prior to , civil society . |
| 25 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 26 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |
| 27 | Imagine what Liverpool would be like if the Labour Party had refused to organise there over the past century . |
| 28 | He pondered on what kissing a woman with a moustache would be like . |
| 29 | To wait for her would be like walking backwards . |
| 30 | It would be like this for ever , no change , the pattern was fixed . |