Example sentences of "[verb] in what [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been nice to go into partnership with my son Paul , but he deals in what used to be called the avant-garde , the most difficult stuff to sell , and wants to be in New York . |
| 2 | Plas y Brenin is a residential centre , based in what used to be an hotel — it sleeps 71 in two- or three-bedded rooms . |
| 3 | He argues that : ‘ [ t ] o the small investor the idea that someone working in the City is using inside information to deal in what ought to be a uniformly informed market is quite repugnant . |
| 4 | But neither should he allow in only a handful of those who are being persecuted in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | The question dominated our discussions as we gathered in what used to be the long Chapter Room of the Knights Templar . |
| 6 | It is the ‘ big ’ house of Rye , built in 1722 by a local man , James Lamb , taking in what used to be three smaller houses on the same site . |
| 7 | Now Lord and Lady Dormand live in what used to be the shrimp-sized county of Rutland smack in the middle of the most solidly Tory constituency in the land . |
| 8 | Louise was standing in what used to be the studio long ago , when Irena still taught ballet . |
| 9 | The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed . |