Example sentences of "be [prep] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would it be like to be black and watch the election result in Cheltenham ? |
| 2 | I doubt it , because it is inconceivable , just as you can not imagine what it would be like to be blind from birth and then gifted with sight ( but of course I can ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They have seen what it is like to be unable to meet their mortgage repayments and be faced with redundancy and unemployment . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Designed by women who know exactly what it 's like to be pregnant . |
| 8 | I mean I know what it 's like to be Black . |
| 9 | This next section takes you through an exploration of what it 's like to be assertive . |
| 10 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 11 | He also knew what it was like to be alive and young . |
| 12 | But the pleasures are , of course , those of youth , and Lewis at the age of forty seems to have forgotten what it was like to be young . |
| 13 | Had we forgotten what it was like to be young ? |
| 14 | Deborah Moggach talks to Olivia Abbott about what it was like to be young , embarrassed , and in Bristol |
| 15 | A bit nosey , that was all , and Margaret understood what it was like to be nosey . |
| 16 | When she was about three months pregnant , and feeling totally rejected by everyone , she got into a very depressed state , staying in her room for several days without moving , wondering if this was what it was like to be dead . |
| 17 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 18 | He was talking about what it was like to be unemployed and , typical John , was making his depressing position sound not too bad . |
| 19 | For the first time in her life , she learned what it was like to be jealous of me . |