Example sentences of "[noun] will [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your belief , as I understand it , is that we should accept not knowing what the future will be like and that we should trust in the abilities of ourselves , and of everyone else , to be surprised by what happenS , to be changed by it , and to be able to react in new ways that at present we do not know ? |
| 2 | In some ways the polytechnics will be like universities . |
| 3 | It is impossible to say how many until we know what the winter will be like . |
| 4 | Jonathan Gershuny , now a Professor at the University of Bath and previously a colleague of Chris Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , takes a particularly optimistic view of what work will be like in the future ( Gershuny 1978 ) . |
| 5 | worries about nature versus nurture , fears that the child will be like birth parents in behaviour or temperament ; |
| 6 | Charles Davenant observed in 1710 , " what near Resemblance there was between the Old Rumper , and the Modern Whig ( for a Child will be like his true Father ) and how much they agreed in their Insolence to the Throne , Notions in Religion , Principles as to Government " . |
| 7 | ‘ What do you think the terrain will be like ? ’ |
| 8 | Just ask yourself what the best person for the job will be like . |
| 9 | … and my right-hand Moderatus controls a power-fist for close quarter work , for scooping and crushing those miniscule Marines whose explosive bolts will be like stings … |
| 10 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 11 | Your wife will be like a fruitful vine |
| 12 | We are losing our liberties and our heritage and he declared ‘ I tremble what Ulster will be like when the children in our homes reach the years I have reached . |
| 13 | Check the tide times and find out what conditions will be like at your location . |
| 14 | If the water is very low when you are constructing your map it is worth trying to imagine what the water will be like during a winter flood . |
| 15 | We may adopt another Maoist metaphor and say that the next revolution will be like a straw sandal made in his home province of Hunan . |
| 16 | ‘ When you are at boarding school you are desperately lonely so you fantasise about what a relationship will be like , ’ says Piers Partridge . |
| 17 | This is a foretaste of what things will be like — if the polls are correct — over the next five years . |
| 18 | Glenn : ‘ People will be like , ‘ Where the fuck is Saltcoats ? ’ |
| 19 | Driving or walking around the sculpture will be like turning a model in space — the apparent contradictions transforming themselves into new realities . |
| 20 | To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like . |
| 21 | But until my anticipation turns into apprehension again I will be waiting , imagining what my life will be like in the new school and will I be able to remember where the toilets are . |
| 22 | A merger with the Transport and General Workers ' Union will be like any other previous arrangements . |
| 23 | Unless its practices are to arise totally spontaneously out of the ‘ innate ’ qualities of the new media , it is hard to see how this is to occur or what the music will be like . |
| 24 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 25 | Although he said it is really too early to tell what life in the US will be like under President Clinton , Gates said the US economy is definitely coming back , but that it has changed . |
| 26 | Wimbledon with no Dan will be like strawberries with no cream |
| 27 | your sons will be like olive shoots |
| 28 | Naturally , when the seedlings are planted out , you will be all agog to see what the blooms will be like . |
| 29 | It has to be possible to dream and speak the unthinkable , for the only thing that we do know is that we shall not know what tomorrow 's world will be like . |
| 30 | He be , he be , they be , he 'll be in the year below me , but his birthday will be like , mine . |