Example sentences of "what [noun] [modal v] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |
| 2 | And I said yes , I said you know what Sue can be like , you 've been with her for twelve months and you 're daft enough |
| 3 | It was n't only the thought of what Liti would be like when they were alone . |
| 4 | Jonathan Gershuny , now a Professor at the University of Bath and previously a colleague of Chris Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , takes a particularly optimistic view of what work will be like in the future ( Gershuny 1978 ) . |
| 5 | We can not even start to conceive what conditions might be like in that universe , but there is no reason to conclude , point-blank , that it does not exist . |
| 6 | We get some glimpse of what conditions would be like without water by observing modern deserts , which commonly fluctuate from +45°C to around zero , in the course of twelve hours ! |
| 7 | Check the tide times and find out what conditions will be like at your location . |
| 8 | Imagine what Liverpool would be like if the Labour Party had refused to organise there over the past century . |
| 9 | You know what families can be like . |
| 10 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 11 | This is a foretaste of what things will be like — if the polls are correct — over the next five years . |
| 12 | We are losing our liberties and our heritage and he declared ‘ I tremble what Ulster will be like when the children in our homes reach the years I have reached . |
| 13 | Over the next 18 months the inquiry will produce Labour 's vision of what inner-cities should be like . |
| 14 | Over the next 18 months the inquiry will produce Labour 's vision of what inner-cities should be like . |
| 15 | We must look at what people would be like outside of , and prior to , civil society . |
| 16 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 17 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 18 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 19 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 20 | It 's all part of our great series of free contests to show what life would be like if you landed the jackpot . |
| 21 | We 've been showing you what life would be like if you landed the jackpot . |
| 22 | ( If the expression ‘ form of life ’ is found puzzling , think of what life would be like if we never asked people to do or not to do things , never apologised for doing or not doing things , and so on . ) |
| 23 | Talk over the way you feel with your husband ; imagine what life would be like with another child and think about the advantages and disadvantages . |
| 24 | Adrian Henri ponders on what life would be like without his loved one — how colourless , dull and ordinary it would seem . |
| 25 | This is what life should be like ; this is what I 'm designed for . |
| 26 | It 's touching at their core because it helps them to recognize and understand their own experience of oppression , or what life must be like for their own sister , brother , mother or a member of the youth club . |
| 27 | We 'd already come to know rapping via The Sugarhill Gang 's success a couple of years before , but this was a novel thing , a glimpse of what music would be like in the future . |
| 28 | No one knows what society would be like if everyone acted on the advice of those who openly advocate it . |
| 29 | Now that 's what actually happens , there 's a there 's a dialectical interaction between people 's ideas about what society should be like and the changes that are actually going on around them . |
| 30 | What Aragon could be like without water appears in the Monegros : a complete desert in a dry year , it could , with winter rains , give the heaviest yields in Spain . |