Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] [prep] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you think that at eight at eighty four you 'd be like to be chasing the girls with your wig on . |
| 2 | Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique . |
| 3 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 4 | They were silent for a moment , Rachel trying to contemplate what it must be like to be entirely alone in the world , then , as a sudden thought hit her she glanced up . |
| 5 | You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there . |
| 6 | Sloman prompts one to ask what it could be like to be an entity that controlled all existing ( presumably conscious ) human beings but had no access to what went on in their conscious minds at all , and of which , ex hypothesi , the humans themselves were not aware ? |
| 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 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 9 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 10 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | We wonder what it would be like to be an oak tree , a house , a mountain , even a thunder cloud . |
| 14 | I doubt it , because it is inconceivable , just as you can not imagine what it would be like to be blind from birth and then gifted with sight ( but of course I can ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , I always wondered what it would be like to be a Canadian , growing up just across Lake Ontario from Toronto . |
| 17 | His voice was courteous to the point of diffidence , and Nenna , giving way a little , let herself imagine what it would be like to be on Richard 's staff , and to be directed in everything else by Louise , and to ebb and flow without volition , in the warmth of love and politeness . |