Example sentences of "in what [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Barr , in what used to be a general policy for museum curators , was not writing a passionate defence of the work his museum exhibited . |
| 3 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 4 | Both countries have managed to become the most visibly successful economies in what used to be called their respective ‘ blocs ’ . |
| 5 | In many the class-rooms are simply partitioned cubicles in what used to be a large hall … . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 10 | The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed . |
| 11 | But neither should he allow in only a handful of those who are being persecuted in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | It has been installed in the Middle East and will soon be in use in what used to be the Eastern block . |
| 13 | The first record of elephants in what used to be called Assyria is dated 1700 BC . |
| 14 | The Public Windows Initiative — with the Common Open Software Environment at its side — will try to claim the moral high ground on the issue of open specifications and is likely to cloak Microsoft in what used to be IBM Corp 's mantle . |
| 15 | This change is already under way in what used to be the most clearly defined of all departments — research . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Plas y Brenin is a residential centre , based in what used to be an hotel — it sleeps 71 in two- or three-bedded rooms . |
| 18 | So we pray for peace between the factions in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | Louise was standing in what used to be the studio long ago , when Irena still taught ballet . |
| 20 | In the course of examining how film-makers portrayed Northern Ireland , Spotlight treated four local politicians to bushels of popcorn in what used to be known as the one-and-nines , as they witnessed a screening of The Crying Game . |
| 21 | The question dominated our discussions as we gathered in what used to be the long Chapter Room of the Knights Templar . |
| 22 | It aims to train students in what used to be called " close reading " and to provide them with a critical awareness of the ideological , socio-cultural and historical constraints on the perception of what constitutes " literature " . |
| 23 | RAF medical crews are on standby to fly out to the war zone in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | An insider in what used to be termed ‘ hardcore ’ until techno stole the word has kindly agreed to outline the attributes of Sofa Head , Leatherface and Gan . |
| 25 | Afterwards in the Shoulder of Mutton ( Kneeton Park 1 Knayton 1 ) it transpired that he 's in what used to be known as Tin Pan Alley probably the only manager in the Hambleton Combination ( third division ) who 's also been a manager of the Bay City Rollers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |