Example sentences of "[Wh det] it is like for " in BNC.
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| 1 | BS is supposed to have complete scientific knowledge of V and his physical environment when V sees : yet BS does not know what it is like for V to see , what colours look like , etcetera . |
| 2 | What it is like for a daughter in these circumstances is described by Afshan Begum ( a young Muslim woman who grew up in Britain ) in her thesis Adolescent Muslim girls in British Schools . |
| 3 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |
| 4 | Assuming ( as we all do ) that our experience is somehow intrinsically different from the bat 's , how could we even conceive of what the bat 's experience is really like — that is to say , what it is like for the bat ? |
| 5 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 6 | It 's exhausting enough for you ; imagine what it is like for someone who is n't used to your kids . |
| 7 | We all have too much experience of what it is like for council tenants trying to exercise their supposed freedom for us to lie easily with the Government 's assurances on that matter . |