Example sentences of "be [prep] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 2 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 3 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 4 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 5 | What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran , watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery ? |
| 6 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 7 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |
| 8 | I think it 's wo , it 's worth for the school . |
| 9 | What it is like for a daughter in these circumstances is described by Afshan Begum ( a young Muslim woman who grew up in Britain ) in her thesis Adolescent Muslim girls in British Schools . |
| 10 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 11 | Assuming ( as we all do ) that our experience is somehow intrinsically different from the bat 's , how could we even conceive of what the bat 's experience is really like — that is to say , what it is like for the bat ? |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't understand what it 's like for a woman . |
| 13 | I do n't know what it 's like for a girl , but it 's not easy for a fella to get hold of contraception . |
| 14 | Well do n't worry dear it wo n't matter to you what the weather 's like for the next week will it ? |
| 15 | Cutting the that was for for the or the dairy cows . |
| 16 | But we knew what life was like for the children of Vietnam — and we were determined to see change . |
| 17 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |