Example sentences of "[prep] what be the [adj] union " in BNC.

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1 That is where Britain , China , France , the United States and the components of what was the Soviet Union have a clear responsibility .
2 That will raise a number of new question marks throughout what was the Soviet Union .
3 Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ?
4 It is vital that we preserve our own independent nuclear deterrent as protection against nuclear blackmail ; it is equally important that we take every possible step — as we are doing — to ensure that the process of rapid political change , and the change of authority that has taken place in what was the Soviet Union , do not lead to a more dangerous situation in regard to the present control and authority over nuclear weapons .
5 About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air .
6 The revolutionary left has been profoundly disoriented by the crisis in state-run economies both in Latin America and , even more graphically , in what were the Soviet Union and eastern Europe .
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