Example sentences of "must be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real end must be like counting one then two then three . |
| 2 | It must be like this for a minister paying his visits . |
| 3 | Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique . |
| 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 | She had caught sight of it only once , from the top of a bus , but she knew , from watching television , from looking at pictures in her mother 's magazines , what it must be like . |
| 6 | I can not imagine what it must be like , but of course , facts have to be faced , one 's own life has some kind of vestigial importance , the question of cruelty really does not arise . |
| 7 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 8 | His preparation must be like an Olympic athlete 's . |
| 9 | God knows what the North must be like , you feel , if Wolverton is like this ! |
| 10 | I wondered what it must be like to work in such an atmosphere . |
| 11 | In his opinion , although everything that exists must be like its cause , the fact that one thing is produced by another implies that they are different . |
| 12 | You must be like a piece of wood in the ocean : wood always floats to the surface , even though it is rolled over and held under . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Must be like a swamp after all the heavy rain we 've had . |
| 14 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 15 | ‘ You imagine what it must be like yourself , that 's what I do . |
| 16 | Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ? |
| 17 | For this to happen the Church must be like a beacon shining through the darkness , an example of love and justice to the rest of society . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Trying to recreate something as well-known as Layla must be like trying to forge a Picasso . |
| 20 | He realized now what solitary confinement must be like and wondered how people could survive months , even years of it . |
| 21 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
| 22 | It must be like going to sea in a haystack . ’ |
| 23 | It 's touching at their core because it helps them to recognize and understand their own experience of oppression , or what life must be like for their own sister , brother , mother or a member of the youth club . |
| 24 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
| 25 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 26 | One imagines , probably quite wrongly , that the moon must be like the wilder areas of Sutherland . |
| 27 | Rather , they say it because they think it must be like that . |
| 28 | It must be like that , they think , because what is said , or written' is not intrinsically meaningful . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered . |