Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] [prep] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is no more what it is like to be a bat than the following is a good picture of what it is like to see colour : use an instrument to measure the wavelength of the light that is entering your eye : if it is long , you are seeing red , if it is short you are seeing violet or blue . |
| 2 | Pound says , in effect : ‘ If your French is n't good enough to go where the quality is both defined ( metaphorically ) and exemplified , i.e. in Gautier 's ‘ L'art ’ specifically and in his Emaux et Camées as a whole , or in the work of followers like Hérédia and Samain , then remind yourself , or re-experience , what it is like to read George Herbert and Christina Rossetti and Lionel Johnson . |
| 3 | Cannon said yesterday : ‘ We both know what it 's like to fight council planning officers . |
| 4 | Is this what it 's like to have time on your hands ? |
| 5 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 6 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 7 | So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus . |
| 8 | Indeed , many will recall what it was like to prepare RAF food . |
| 9 | At that point I was just satisfying my curiosity about what it was like to make records . ’ |