Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh this must be like mouse . |
| 2 | For a human female this would be like having a baby in her mid-sixties . |
| 3 | Translated into terms of visual experience , this would be like a semi-transparent door with extra light coming in around all the cracks . |
| 4 | To say this would be like saying that people acquire the concept of the past by experiencing it in memory . |
| 5 | In an age when a symphony orchestra can appear in uniforms designed to advertise tobacco industry sponsors , conflating music and cigarettes into a single narcotic ( Guardian , 26 March 1984 : 13 ) ; when in Japan the record companies and the large industrial corporations co-operate to produce ‘ image-songs ’ which both advertise the corporations and play an important role in the hit parade ; ’ when a small selection of endlessly per mutated pop songs provides the background for almost every social activity ; when rhythm tracks on disco records can be behaviouristic ally planned and electronically produced , for maximum precision and control : one can not , at this time , avoid the feeling that if Orwell 's ‘ 1984 ’ ever arrives , it might well consist of a continuous Eurovision Song Contest ; that the ideal of the music industry would be to turn everything into muzak ( Philip Tagg 's entertaining account of the way muzak is used to ‘ programme ’ a Swedish office worker 's day gives an idea of what this would be like ( Tags 1984 ) ) . |
| 6 | At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish . |
| 7 | ‘ I figure if I do n't organise it somebody else will organise it after I die and that 'll be like , it wo n't be right . |
| 8 | That 'll be like four years this August . |
| 9 | Yeah , but that 'll be like a tunnel , you know , when the wind 's blowing because the wind hits our front |
| 10 | That 'll be like me going up there |
| 11 | Yeah , and then , that 'll be like that . |
| 12 | and then eventually that 'll be like a little sitting room |
| 13 | What you doing with the fringe then , just that 'd be like fringe . |
| 14 | In particular , what was wrong was their idea that ‘ science ’ should consist of demonstrative syllogisms , and their view of what the premisses of these should be like . |
| 15 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |
| 16 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 17 | That would be like a holiday in itself . |
| 18 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That would be like each doing their own version of NFS or TCP/IP and handing the advantage to Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , which has no systems management API yet , ’ warns Moss . |
| 20 | I wonder what that would be like ? |
| 21 | Goodness knows what that would be like . |
| 22 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 23 | When we 've decided on the names , we then have to find the best person to approach for each potential guest , and that can be like a detective job . |