Example sentences of "[adv] what [pron] [be] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 .
2 You should know weeks ahead just what you are to be studying and at what time .
3 The opposite style is to assume that the communication should be limited to exactly what there is to be communicated and that all else risks blurring the communication .
4 It seems to me that the only possible way of finding out what it is like is to live it .
5 Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside .
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