Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | It must be like living in a power station . ’ |
| 4 | There 's something spooky about them : you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered , God-run universe , with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan . |
| 5 | It must be like looking for a needle in a haystack — assuming there 's a bloody needle there . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thursday 's performance at Darlington Arts Centre is sold out , although it might be worth checking with the box office ( ) for returns . |
| 8 | Another route to a part-time job might be by looking at the cards in newsagents ' windows , or asking as your local Job Centre or office of Professional and Executive Recruitment , addresses of which will be in your local Yellow Pages . |
| 9 | For some people the best way to introduce the subject might be by talking about a TV programme or article . |
| 10 | Thank God he does n't know where she lives here cos he 'll be round knocking on the door . |
| 11 | Before the Digital Servo Interface is described it may be worth looking at the principles of operation of these model servos . |
| 12 | It may be worth looking at the pair made up of Phi¹ ; ( 3.6 ) which is orange , and Phi² ; ( 4.5 ) which is white . |
| 13 | It may be worth investing in a course of vitamin supplements — they ca n't make up for a poor diet but they can provide a useful boost occasionally . |
| 14 | Although the test results from your water company are average , it may be worth investing in a tap-water filter , such as a Nitragon , de-ioniser or reverse osmosis unit . |
| 15 | Helynsar ran well in the later stages of her race at the last meeting when Treat Me Good scored and she may be worth following against a moderate lot in the Moira Novices Chase . |
| 16 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 17 | So it is good to have these idiomatic recordings to remind us of just how good a pianist he was : in both the Concerto and the Rhapsody , rock-solid technique serves real musicality , and this CD would be worth acquiring on the strength of the Gershwin works alone . |
| 18 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |
| 19 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 20 | It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack . ’ |
| 21 | It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack . |
| 22 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 23 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
| 24 | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an antique shop ? |
| 25 | It would be like knitting in the middle of a giant car park . |
| 26 | ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’ |
| 27 | My passion is for its numerous Romanesque churches , in most cases humbly proportioned but elevated into unique works of art by the richness of their exquisitely-sculpted decoration ; to go to Poitou/Saintonge and not look at any of its churches would be like going to an African game reserve and ignoring the animals . |
| 28 | He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh . |
| 29 | " Has it ever struck you , Pinkie , what it would be like to belong to a class of objects which gets more valuable as it gets older ? |
| 30 | As Rain passed Tavett 's desk he cupped his face in his hands and moaned for her benefit , saying : ‘ Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in an ordinary office instead of a newspaper where every kind of freak feels entitled to barge in and collar you ? ’ |