Example sentences of "what it be [prep] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pity is that they are missing so much ; for instance , they will never know what it is like to fish a small stream , or any river except perhaps a sluggish canal-like one . |
| 2 | We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae . |
| 3 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've almost forgotten what it 's like to live a normal life , ’ she said drily . |
| 5 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
| 6 | This must be what it 's like to play a variety club on a Saturday night . |
| 7 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |
| 8 | A great critic may evoke what it was like to attend a historic performance , but only a genius can provide an equivalent emotional experience . |
| 9 | I have been asked by several Society members what it was like to take a ride on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and the best description that I know of is the account by the late Sir Jasper More in his book , ‘ A TALE OF TWO HOUSES ’ , published by Sir Jasper in 1978 . |
| 10 | — Sid Breeze : By popular request , another chance to hear Sid tell us what it was like to drive a steam engine on British Railways . |
| 11 | Asquith 's début feature is fascinating both because its setting in a bustling film studio gives some impression of what it was like to shoot a picture in Britain at the end of the silent era , and because of what it argues as the future for British films . |