Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something spooky about them : you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered , God-run universe , with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan . |
| 2 | ‘ Can you imagine what it must be like to lose someone who 's been part of your life for so long ? ’ |
| 3 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 4 | She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered . |
| 5 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |
| 6 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 7 | I wondered what it must be like to work in such an atmosphere . |
| 8 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
| 9 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 10 | When his plan is compared with Gandy 's ( Fig. 27a ) , the main difference lies in the care he has taken to consider what it might be like to live inside . |
| 11 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
| 12 | We can see what it might be like to have an intermittently updated world image , by using a stroboscope at night . |
| 13 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 14 | Quite what it would be like to give up material bodies I shall not consider . |
| 15 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 16 | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an antique shop ? |
| 17 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
| 18 | In fact and in fiction , not only in the Regency but in the eighteenth century as well , the upper classes seem rarely to have ventured beneath an impoverished roof , much less imagined what it would be like to live beneath one . |
| 19 | Maryon felt quite apprehensive about the experiment and wondered what it would be like to live with Alan during the diet . |
| 20 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 21 | ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’ |
| 22 | While you 're still a lifer you 're generally more interested in what it would be like to see a ghost . |
| 23 | You really start to think about what it would be like to die . |
| 24 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 25 | One day in fencing practice , he had wondered what it would be like to kill his opponent , and had done so . |
| 26 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
| 27 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 28 | Every time she mentioned babies and what it would be like to have their own one day , Stephen changed the subject or yet another crisis loomed which he had to dash off and deal with . |
| 29 | In quiet moments , they wonder what it would be like to have such genius as his . |
| 30 | One of these away at the back used to what it would be like to have teeth . |