Example sentences of "what it be [prep] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flupper tells them its story : not just what happened , but also about what it is like to live on Positos VI PH . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | People in Britain tend to have strong feelings about what it is like to live in rural or urban areas . |
| 4 | Niki has ‘ written ’ a whole book on what it is like to drive for Ferrari . |
| 5 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 6 | Have they any idea of what it is like to re-tune at 70-plus miles an hour ? |
| 7 | For instance , the Association of Carers ( address on page 145 ) was founded in 1981 by Judith Oliver who knows from experience what it is like to look after a disabled husband for many years . |
| 8 | Time for reflection : Andy Goram now knows ‘ what it is like to play for an honest-to-god institution ’ after some words of wisdom from Walter Smith . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Delighted ‘ We know what it 's like to fall on hard times . |
| 11 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 12 | But all were agreed that her insight into what it 's like to work in space was fascinating . |
| 13 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Apart from the influence of many young voters who have no memory of what it was like to live under a Labour government , the biggest thing going for Labour in this election is an Englishman 's sense of fair play . |
| 16 | I think Casualty was very much engaged with what it was like to live under Thatcherism . |
| 17 | You have not known , you could not know , what it was like to live under the Occupation . |
| 18 | He was also learning the hard way what it was like to live with the ‘ changeability of women ’ . |
| 19 | This is what it was like to live in the pre-scholastic age . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She wondered what it was like to wake in the morning and plan things for yourself . |
| 23 | An alternative to this type of full-scale reconstruction is the type of reconstruction used at the Jorvik Centre in York , where special effects , including sounds and smells , give visitors an impression of what it was like to walk through York in the Viking era . |
| 24 | I had no conception of what it was like to play for an honest-to-god institution until Walter put me straight . |
| 25 | 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 . |