Example sentences of "what it be [prep] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differentiating modes of access seems relevant only because of the covert assumption that different ways of knowing feel different — that is , what it is like to have those experiences is different . |
| 2 | Can we imagine what it is like to have two non-overlapping visual fields ? |
| 3 | Men can not breastfeed babies , nor can they experience what it is like to have carried a child , however much their partners may have encouraged them to feel the moving infant inside the belly . |
| 4 | You have no idea what it is like to have to bear a child . |
| 5 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 6 | However , on a more serious note , I do understand what it is like to have unwanted admirers . |
| 7 | Is this what it 's like to have time on your hands ? |
| 8 | He knows exactly what it 's like to have to keep an eye open in every dark , steamy nook and cranny for cancer squatters . |
| 9 | Finance director Colin Stone , 44 , said : ‘ We can remember what it 's like to have nothing . |
| 10 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
| 11 | If Nathan Cohen — some years older than his wife — had known the dangers of battle as a young lieutenant in the army , then Masha Cohen had known its civilian equivalent , what it was like to have been humiliated , to have lost everything , and to have been forced to flee from one 's country and kindred . |
| 12 | I was really curious to know what it was like to have your collar felt . |
| 13 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |
| 14 | This was to keep alive , in boys whose privileged background might have encouraged complacent acceptance rather than active pursuit of power , a keen appreciation of what it was like to have it , and what it was like to be without it . |
| 15 | ‘ Several people have asked what it was like to have to film scenes like that with your future daughter-in-law , ’ Jim says . |