Example sentences of "[noun sg] what it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 2 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 3 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Consumption of butter today was only half what it was in 1980 and a quarter of the 1970s figures , Dr Buss said . |
| 6 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 7 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 8 | ‘ You have n't even begun to try to understand … you have n't a notion what it was like , all the cars and the blood and the glass and the boy with the blanket over him , and a girl breaking her ribs , and all the hanging around and waiting … it was … it was … just awful . ’ |
| 9 | She lifted her chilly hands into the air and proclaimed : ‘ I rrremember what it was like to be a toad . ’ |
| 10 | THE energy secretary found out this week what it is like to be stomped on by Washington 's green lobby . |
| 11 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 12 | They they were experimenting to erm reproduce a space what it 's like in space when erm debris since the space shuttle and then er |
| 13 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 14 | Lambeth has no idea in the world what it 's like for people like us . |
| 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 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 17 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 18 | For instance , the Association of Carers ( address on page 145 ) was founded in 1981 by Judith Oliver who knows from experience what it is like to look after a disabled husband for many years . |
| 19 | were getting the money what it was worth . |
| 20 | you know you just still bewildered because you do n't understand , I mean like I go to this night class and apparently I , I learn from it , but in actual fact I do n't , I come out I get eight out of ten , nine out of ten , or ten out of ten and I have n't got a clue what it 's about |
| 21 | And now I have had a letter from Katie Mallett , saying she will not be entering no 3225 ‘ because I did n't see the TV exposé of Summerhill , and have n't got the faintest clue what it 's like ’ . |
| 22 | He was also learning the hard way what it was like to live with the ‘ changeability of women ’ . |
| 23 | You have no idea what it is like to have to bear a child . |
| 24 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |
| 25 | Monetarily , I have n't any idea what it 's worth , er it 's not everybody 's cup of tea , it is a cockfighting chair , but it 's very very interesting . |
| 26 | Monetarily , I have n't any idea what it 's worth , er it 's not everybody 's cup of tea , it is a cockfighting chair and it 's not particularly beautiful but it 's very very interesting . |
| 27 | They 've just got no idea what it 's like . |
| 28 | ‘ You got any idea what it 's like ? ’ |
| 29 | You young people have no idea what it was like for people in Europe then to be offered a cigarette or a piece of chocolate or something like real coffee . |
| 30 | Therefore it gave us an idea what it was like in the working world . |