Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they about what the new settlement should be like , if so is that an appropriate consideration for the structure plan . |
| 2 | His preparation must be like an Olympic athlete 's . |
| 3 | ‘ It will be handsome when uniforme , ’ said Palladio about his houses , ‘ because a building should be like an entier and perfect body where each member agrees with the other. , |
| 4 | So I know what your board should be like . |
| 5 | Whooping cough may be like this or even asthma . |
| 6 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 7 | Auntie said carefully : " Then I think , and thinking must be like seeing : I see things . " |
| 8 | There is no sense here of any engagement with the writer on what the script should be like , nor does Hepworth anticipate substantial work being done on the text after his initial moments of introspection . |
| 9 | He believed that ‘ a club should be like a big family , with all members of it sticking and pulling together under one head ’ . |
| 10 | So a typical card might be like this . |
| 11 | But life under Labour would be like a nuclear winter . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ To expect the Liberals to control Labour would be like asking Dad 's Army to restrain the Mongol Hordes . ’ |
| 13 | To expect the Liberals to control Labour would be like asking Dad 's Army to restrain the Mongol Hordes . ’ |
| 14 | Continued economic expansion and the widespread belief that Keynesian economic techniques provided governments with an effective tool for managing the economy had engendered the belief that the future would be like the present , but better , that economic growth would simply continue into the indefinite future , bringing more and greater benefits to all segments of society . |
| 15 | Imagine what the performance of your motor car would be like if you reduced the air supply to the carburettor . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | It 's only then that you realise just what a dictatorship can be like . ’ |
| 18 | She supposed that marriage must be like that : an unquestioning acceptance of the weird ways of another . |
| 19 | ‘ Now this is what a pub should be like , ’ he said to them with a grin . |
| 20 | You 've really got to be one to appreciate the spirit of the place but pop in to see what a real pub should be like . |
| 21 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 22 | I can not think what his poetry would be like . ’ |
| 23 | Work on it is like a dream , or like thoughts of what a work would be like . |
| 24 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |
| 25 | During Key Biscayne , Jennifer was asked if she agreed with Monica Seles ' current belief that if she had known then , what she knows now , what life on the tennis circuit would be like , she would not have started at such an early age . |
| 26 | ‘ You are saying that if it were possible to remove a fertilized egg cell from a woman after she had conceived , you could examine it and say what the resulting child would be like ? ’ |
| 27 | I , however was lost in a daydream wondering what the Queen would be like . |
| 28 | It is impossible to say how many until we know what the winter will be like . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | worries about nature versus nurture , fears that the child will be like birth parents in behaviour or temperament ; |