Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 2 | It 's exhausting enough for you ; imagine what it is like for someone who is n't used to your kids . |
| 3 | The theories that have guided these insights into the mechanisms of psychotic and creative thought do not , of course , specify what it is about the brain that might account for the differences observed in schizophrenic and schizotypal individuals . |
| 4 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 5 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 6 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 7 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 8 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 10 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 11 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 12 | I know what it is to be cursed with that temper . ’ |
| 13 | My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , South ( Mr. Doran ) and other colleagues know what it is to which I refer . |
| 14 | I mean , we all know what it is in everyday life . |
| 15 | The Seattle Seahawks know what it is like following their game in October . |
| 16 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 19 | Again , women well know what it is like to be treated as children and they find it offensive . |
| 20 | I know what it is like to love and be loved . |
| 21 | ‘ I was captain of Darlington for many years so I know what it is like in his job . |
| 22 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 23 | Much depends on the intangibles which produce whatever it is in the ether that allows creative sparks to ignite . |
| 24 | I wonder what it is like , living in a building built five hundred years ago ? ’ |
| 25 | Well I have n't been so I wonder what it is like ? |
| 26 | We all experience what it is like not to have an iris diaphragm , when we are momentarily dazzled by oncoming car headlights . |
| 27 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 28 | Grab your chance : explain what it is like to be confronted with a subject without any preparation . |