Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] like [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , I always wondered what it would be like to be a Canadian , growing up just across Lake Ontario from Toronto . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We wonder what it would be like to be an oak tree , a house , a mountain , even a thunder cloud . |