Example sentences of "might be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 2 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 3 | I thought it might be like a clan gathering … but why the hell should it be . |
| 4 | As an exercise in thinking about the unthinkable , the point is a counter to the idea of ‘ tactical ’ nuclear war as a first step in the ladder of escalation but , equally , it might be like trying to avoid any unwanted delays in Russian roulette by starting with a fully loaded gun . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No matter what the individual records might be like in themselves , the ten studio albums , two live LPs and two compilations represent a major body of work . |
| 7 | We can not even start to conceive what conditions might be like in that universe , but there is no reason to conclude , point-blank , that it does not exist . |
| 8 | How , in Schelling 's terms ( 1979 ) , a state manages the balance between voluntarism and coercion is a central key to understanding what its future investment climate might be like , and thus its attractiveness to potential investors . |
| 9 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |
| 10 | So a typical card might be like this . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 13 | Each record is examined in turn , and its descriptors are compared with those of the search request ( which might be like that for a graduate engineer with other attributes shown above ) . |
| 14 | I could n't even imagine what this sensation might be like any more , so utterly had it evaporated . |
| 15 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 16 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 17 | And it might be like . |
| 18 | If one was asked to describe what Hell might be like , this would do . |
| 19 | For Gosse the Earth might be like Adam , supplied with what looks like evidence of its past history , but is not . |
| 20 | It 's difficult enough dealing with you when you 're halfway normal — I dread to think what you might be like in a state of delirium . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I would like to , I think — but I 'm afraid I might be like that — I think I would want to be like that . |
| 22 | I thought about what they might be like . |
| 23 | They live in a world of echoes , and probably their brains can use echoes to do something akin to " seeing " images , although it is next to impossible for us to " visualize " what those images might be like . |
| 24 | We can see what it might be like to have an intermittently updated world image , by using a stroboscope at night . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well , now the thing is , right what I 've thought might be like a good thing , er cos we all like entertainments , is like if Riot Girl were to become a society , |
| 27 | The Wise ( Women into Science and Engineering ) bus visits eight Gwynedd schools to give girls an insight into modern technology and a taste of what a career in engineering today might be like . |
| 28 | I thought it might be like one of these clubs , you know . |
| 29 | People might do it at first , there might be like an epidemic of wow it 's so cool we can smoke at school |
| 30 | Yes and one can imagine that it might be like that , but of course the women that we meet at university are those who have become scientists very often . |