Example sentences of "would [be] [prep] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man .
2 I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position .
3 He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work .
4 They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos .
5 The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue .
6 Can any of your readers imagine what it would be like to be thrown into a ‘ concentration camp ’ for 20 years without trial , and , then the door of that awful place being opened and you are told you may go ?
7 We wonder what it would be like to be an oak tree , a house , a mountain , even a thunder cloud .
8 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 ) .
9 In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known .
10 ‘ You know , I always wondered what it would be like to be a Canadian , growing up just across Lake Ontario from Toronto .
11 His voice was courteous to the point of diffidence , and Nenna , giving way a little , let herself imagine what it would be like to be on Richard 's staff , and to be directed in everything else by Louise , and to ebb and flow without volition , in the warmth of love and politeness .
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