Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be like a questionnaire , leaving the interviewer no discretion as to how to ask the questions or in what order . |
| 2 | At least that is what it should be like . |
| 3 | It should be like that anyway . |
| 4 | That 's what it should be like Sally |
| 5 | So it should be like , your close friends and family in the middle , Bob , who 's my brother , he said he 'd give me an appointment when I come back , I 'll ring him , and then I go to the outer circle for the rest of that phone session . |
| 6 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 7 | It must be like this for a minister paying his visits . |
| 8 | Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique . |
| 9 | Everyone pushes out the boat to look their best on the Big Day — so imagine what it must be like if money 's no object . |
| 10 | She had caught sight of it only once , from the top of a bus , but she knew , from watching television , from looking at pictures in her mother 's magazines , what it must be like . |
| 11 | I can not imagine what it must be like , but of course , facts have to be faced , one 's own life has some kind of vestigial importance , the question of cruelty really does not arise . |
| 12 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 13 | I wondered what it must be like to work in such an atmosphere . |
| 14 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 15 | ‘ You imagine what it must be like yourself , that 's what I do . |
| 16 | Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ? |
| 17 | If you know they have always enjoyed close companionship until they finally had to live alone , it is not difficult to imagine what it must be like for them to have no one to share their life with any longer , and no hand to hold as their step becomes less sure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It must be like going to sea in a haystack . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Rather , they say it because they think it must be like that . |
| 22 | It must be like that , they think , because what is said , or written' is not intrinsically meaningful . |
| 23 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 24 | She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered . |
| 25 | This was what it must be like on a toboggan roaring down the snowy slope of a mountainside . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It must be like a nightmare . |
| 29 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 30 | He could hardly begin to imagine what it must be like for her — everything severed , no turning back , the entire texture of her life abandoned for the deep terror of the new . |