Sentence examples for be was not from inspiring English sources

What that action might be was not specified.

But what exactly it might be was not clear at all.

In those days, the place to be was not Tampa or Miami, but Havana, which for Florida bands was as tantalising as Las Vegas.They never made it.

As for how Ryan viewed his performance, he told The Daily News: "All I wanted to be was not terrible," Ryan said.

A name is a private thing: the Rosie that she thought herself to be was not – cannot be – the Rosie of the memoir.

The present was kept a little at bay: that congregations everywhere continued to dwindle, that no ground had been regained by the Church or seemed likely to be, was not often mentioned.

Why that should be is not clear.

Where "back" might be is not clear.

There was, wasn't there?

It was, wasn't it?

Well, it's wasn't a memoir.