Example sentences of "what it [vb mod] [be] like " in BNC.

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1 God knows what it 'll be like in a real race .
2 You do n't know what it 'll be like , if it 'll be like the scenes you see on the news every night .
3 so er do n't know what it 'll be like .
4 what it 'll be like ?
5 Imagine what it might be like if , as humans , we had not only the senses of other creatures but the ability to understand these communications as they do .
6 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 .
7 We can see what it might be like to have an intermittently updated world image , by using a stroboscope at night .
8 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 .
9 You who read me , he concluded , you who think you understand me , must try to imagine what it would be like not to understand me .
10 Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day .
11 Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle .
12 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 .
13 ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living .
14 I think , with having children of my own , I think what it would be like , God forbid , if that happened to one of my kids .
15 He tries to imagine the process by demystifying himself , in other words , by ridding himself of the fantastic in the notion of labour , and by trying to see what it would be like without the strange construction of the system of his time .
16 This chapter illustrates what it would be like , through the eyes of the Royal Scots .
17 He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news .
18 McLeish knew roughly what it would be like from Francesca 's description of her own Department , but he was still interested in the controlled bustle in the big untidy room .
19 Now do you understand what it would be like if everyone was like that ?
20 ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’
21 Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners .
22 I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position .
23 That is to say , they know what it would be like for God to exist , but as a matter of fact they do n't think that one does .
24 joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children .
25 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 .
26 The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday .
27 ‘ I can not imagine what it would be like without it .
28 They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos .
29 One day in fencing practice , he had wondered what it would be like to kill his opponent , and had done so .
30 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 .
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