Example sentences of "what [modal v] to be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the political literati lay waste to vast tracts of newsprint in their musings about the causes of Labour 's failure , and the shortcomings of the political system that compounded it , those people who constitute what ought to be the bedrock of oppositional electoral support are becoming increasingly alienated not only from the Labour Party , but from the entire political process . |
| 2 | What used to be The Safe . |
| 3 | what used to be the bathroom the little pantry , did that use to be the bathroom ? |
| 4 | The breakthrough came 6 weeks after the police dismantled the garage and started ripping up the garden at what used to be the home of Joan 's husband , David Main . |
| 5 | The news that ICL Plc is to acquire Warrington , Cheshire-based Technology Holdings Plc for a maximum of £40m seems to set the seal on the success of the management buyout team at what used to be the distribution arm of MBS Plc — a business that MBS top management felt was such a drain on its corporate resources that it could n't wait to let the company go . |
| 6 | All work has been concentrated on to what used to be the body plant . |
| 7 | When that breaks down , they 're sent to what used to be the poorhouse . |
| 8 | But since I slept in , what used to be the maid 's bedroom , I was always |
| 9 | There are over 50,000 Vietnamese in what used to be the GDR brought over in the Eighties as Gastarbeiter ( guest workers ) to do menial factory jobs . |
| 10 | And from what used to be the iron state of East Germany . |
| 11 | All are comprehensible as symptoms of social disorientation , of the fraying , and sometimes the snapping , of the threads of what used to be the network that bound people together in society . |
| 12 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 13 | Verbal abuse in the streets , broken windows and ‘ Russians go home ’ graffiti are common , and things came to a head recently in Perleberg , not far from what used to be the West/East German border . |
| 14 | Louise was standing in what used to be the studio long ago , when Irena still taught ballet . |
| 15 | As soon as David moved into my flat , what used to be the dining room was no longer the dining room — it was now full of audio equipment , stylophones , keyboards , amplifiers and huge speakers . |