Example sentences of "life [modal v] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what life should be like ; this is what I 'm designed for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He is often very callous to Lennie and is constantly reminding him what his life could be like without Lennie . |
| 6 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you have decided that you want to change things in your life , first you must be able to imagine what your life would be like if it were different . |
| 9 | It 's all part of our great series of free contests to show what life would be like if you landed the jackpot . |
| 10 | We 've been showing you what life would be like if you landed the jackpot . |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | Most societies have a prevailing image of what desirable family life would be like ; modern Britain is no exception . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Adrian Henri ponders on what life would be like without his loved one — how colourless , dull and ordinary it would seem . |
| 15 | To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like . |
| 16 | But until my anticipation turns into apprehension again I will be waiting , imagining what my life will be like in the new school and will I be able to remember where the toilets are . |
| 17 | At that moment , and perhaps for an hour afterwards , I was on Cloud Nine — in a state of happiness , contentment , euphoria , joy and utter peace such as I have never experienced before or since : everything is all right , an inner voice said , and everything from now on will always be all right ; how wonderful to know that life can be like this . |
| 18 | And your life can be like that . |