Example sentences of "what it [vb mod] [be] [prep] " 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 | However , it will not provide the bumper take-out price implied by the recent performance of the Jaguar share price , offering instead some guidance as to what it might be in the future . |
| 10 | For what it may be worth , if I am wrong in my application of the neighbourhood test so that the disturbance has to be judged by pre-planning permission standards , I would have found that the heavy goods vehicles going to and from each of the fourth and fifth defendant 's operations constituted a material disturbance to the residents at night . |
| 11 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 12 | The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This chapter illustrates what it would be like , through the eyes of the Royal Scots . |
| 21 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now do you understand what it would be like if everyone was like that ? |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |