Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be was " in BNC.
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1 | It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear . |
2 | But what its content should be was left at first to the experts . |
3 | Where the wall should be was a space , a mist , a foggy drop into infinity … |
4 | Quite what that image should be was , in 1990 , undecided . |
5 | The earlier version of English at Nottingham as " elegant dabbling in belles-lettres " stiffened by Anglo Saxon and philology , now made way for a more Leavisian model : " My conception of what a School of English should be was considerably clarified by my reading of Dr. Leavis " notable essay entitled " A Sketch for an English School " in his Education and the University . " |