Example sentences of "what [modal v] to be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though flanked by what ought to be a couple of monstrosities of incongruence — the Hilton Hotel and the nineteenth-century Fisherman 's Bastion — all seem quite compatible . |
| 2 | Suffice it to say that , after referring to the ‘ extraordinary , and perhaps unique , jurisdiction of the Visitors to the Inns of Court , ’ he found that the judges possessed a residual jurisdiction by which , in an exceptional case , they might remit a matter to an Inn and direct it to reconsider , with the Inns ' Council and the Bar Council , what ought to be the criteria by which they should judge the question before it determined the application afresh . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the best will in the world , I am not responsible for what was said over the weekend or for what may to be a contradiction . |
| 5 | This is the main driveway up here , opening on what used to be a road down to Florence . ’ |
| 6 | For the man who owns this land , watching what used to be a wheat field turned into a race track has been an eye opener … although he 's well aware of the problems the sport can cause . |
| 7 | Not what used to be a restaurant ? |
| 8 | We have to keep a proper balance or we will continue to see destruction in the countryside that we have seen in some areas where there is too much access and where what used to be a path has become as wide as the M1 . |
| 9 | In the land behind me , in what used to be no man 's land is hidden the bunker where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide at the end of the war . |
| 10 | What used to be The Safe . |
| 11 | what used to be the bathroom the little pantry , did that use to be the bathroom ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There 's an old lady living next door to what used to be the Armitage house ; she was there when Mrs Armitage was alive and Inez was her companion . ’ |
| 14 | They and their guests never get on each other 's nerves , because they have self-contained accommodation in what used to be the barns and outhouses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All work has been concentrated on to what used to be the body plant . |
| 17 | When that breaks down , they 're sent to what used to be the poorhouse . |
| 18 | But since I slept in , what used to be the maid 's bedroom , I was always |
| 19 | THE Cubans have pulled out of what used to be the People 's Republic of the Congo , and is now just the Congo Republic . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And from what used to be the iron state of East Germany . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Erm , they 've demolished all the north side , you know what used to be the dynamics and that 's all gone , it 's gon na become , you know , it 's not very , that 's becoming a , well , in the process of becoming a business park , but I mean , mean well , I mean , it , it , it 's all executive erm , and you know business stuff and on the surface , you know , we 're still reasonably busy with , with that sort of thing , but erm , no that , they have , the only one four six we see now is just on the company shuttle just you know until they complete the close down of the factory , they shuttle them up to Woodford , er , er , and back every day . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Louise was standing in what used to be the studio long ago , when Irena still taught ballet . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Plas y Brenin is a residential centre , based in what used to be an hotel — it sleeps 71 in two- or three-bedded rooms . |
| 29 | The area of the site extends to over fifty acres , on what used to be an asbestos factory on the banks of the river Clyde . |