Example sentences of "be [prep] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 2 | It gives one quite a strong idea of what it 's going to be like to be a corpse . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You know , I always wondered what it would be like to be a Canadian , growing up just across Lake Ontario from Toronto . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sloman prompts one to ask what it could be like to be an entity that controlled all existing ( presumably conscious ) human beings but had no access to what went on in their conscious minds at all , and of which , ex hypothesi , the humans themselves were not aware ? |
| 6 | We wonder what it would be like to be an oak tree , a house , a mountain , even a thunder cloud . |
| 7 | Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique . |
| 8 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of Highgate Hill ( or Highgate West Hill ) with the long dark hair blowing forwards over her shoulder will turn so that he can see her face ; and if so , whether the face will be the revelation that the long dark hair promises ; and what a face would have to be like to be the revelation that one always expects … |
| 9 | What would it be like to be the purple girl , frigid from anxiety , and child-bearing behind her ? |