Example sentences of "[is] [prep] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 2 | THE energy secretary found out this week what it is like to be stomped on by Washington 's green lobby . |
| 3 | In the example above , so that children might imagine what it is like to be blind , the teacher invites them to deprive themselves temporarily of their sight . |
| 4 | But this is like to be a boring trip , see you — business , just . |
| 5 | A commonplace fault among schedule designers , as mentioned earlier , is not thinking enough about what it is like to be on the receiving end of the questions . |
| 6 | The reader feels what it is like to be the member of a minority group , to live in wartime , to be handicapped , to be hopelessly in love , or to be bullied at school . |
| 7 | Fury at the behaviour of the other , or at what the other symbolizes , can be a desperate attempt to get physically and emotionally closer by sharing the experience of what it is like to be battered . |
| 8 | Grab your chance : explain what it is like to be confronted with a subject without any preparation . |
| 9 | Let us imagine , as the first dawning of objective thought , a child wanting another helping at dinner , remembering what it is like to be sick , and telling himself what he has often been told by his mother , ‘ Do n't , or you 'll be ill ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ If the public saw this film they would get a much better idea of what it is like to be disabled , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 12 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 13 | Not only do they fail to express what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog , but they also fail to articulate the specific psychological functions involved . |
| 14 | I remarked above that von Uexkull 's pictures fail to express the phenomenological quality of what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog — or , one might add , a bat ( Nagel 1974 ) . |
| 15 | As Nagel points out , the problem in understanding what it is like to be a bat rests on the difficulty of matching different subjectivities . |
| 16 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 17 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 18 | Curiously enough , however , these are among the very people who tend to shy away from any kind of subjective description of what being a believer is like , and one frequently finds an empathic researcher who does not believe and may even be unsympathetic giving us a greater insight into what it is like to be a member of a particular religion ( see , for example , Cashmore , 1983 ; Judah , 1974 , Westley , 1983 or Lofland , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | So I realized I could do an act based on what it is like to be me . |
| 20 | Again , women well know what it is like to be treated as children and they find it offensive . |
| 21 | Although obviously a very experienced and skilful pilot , David Mason has not forgotten what it is like to be a raw student , and there is a streak of dry humour in his observations of each stage of the training process . |
| 22 | The presentation of these case studies in the form of ‘ life stories ’ is intended to give the reader more of a ‘ feel ’ for what it is like to be a heroin user . |
| 23 | Several properly ambitious philosophers attempt to bring consciousness into view by speaking , with respect to a conscious thing , of what it is like to be that thing . |
| 24 | Farrell , 1950 ) Consciousness , we are invited to say , is a way it is like to be , or , perhaps better , a way of being . |
| 25 | The consciousness of a bat is what it is like to be a bat , that way of being . |
| 26 | To speak of my way of being , or what it is like to be me , seems to be to speak of what distinguishes my conscious life from the conscious lives of others . |
| 27 | Laba was quite a celebrity in the village , and from him we learnt just what it is like to be embraced by a really big snake . |
| 28 | It is virtually impossible for a hearing person to imagine what it is like to be born into silence . |
| 29 | Anyone who has been to watch the Ryder Cup at The Belfry will know what it is like to be in a large crowd when there are only four matches on the course . |
| 30 | h ) company experience with forecasting : the more that a company , large or small , can build up forecasting information and experience , the more successful it is like to be in achieving effective forecasts . |