Example sentences of "what it be [prep] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 2 | People in Britain tend to have strong feelings about what it is like to live in rural or urban areas . |
| 3 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 4 | But all were agreed that her insight into what it 's like to work in space was fascinating . |
| 5 | If the questioner persists by saying : ‘ At least explain to me what it 's like to believe in God ’ , they will refuse the offer once again . |
| 6 | This is what it was like to live in the pre-scholastic age . |
| 7 | The " living history " sessions offered on site by the Education Officers at many museums and historic buildings can provide particularly rewarding experiences for this age group , stimulating the imagination , through sight , touch , smells , and so on , and helping them to experience " what it was like to live in the past " . |
| 8 | Wearing old-fashioned clothes which help them to imagine what it was like to live in the past , they help with simple tasks like carrying in water or logs for the fire , or helping to measure out and mix the ingredients for oatcakes or Welsh cakes which are then cooked on a griddle on the open fire . |
| 9 | She wondered what it was like to wake in the morning and plan things for yourself . |
| 10 | Figures about child labour in coal mines in the nineteenth century , or about evacuation of children in the Second World War , do not begin to give any impression of what it was like to work in a coal mine or to be evacuated . |