Example sentences of "which used to [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , which used to be a problem up until about three or four years ago when independent taxation came in in nineteen ninety . |
| 2 | Collusion , which used to be a bar to divorce , is no longer prohibited , and indeed a Committee chaired by Mrs Justice Booth recommended in 1985 that the parties should in future be entitled to file joint petitions for divorce . |
| 3 | At Harle Syke , just outside the town to the north-east , Queen Street Mill , which used to be a cotton mill , has been preserved by the local council in association with Pennine Heritage , and the building 's steam engine , which powered the looms , remains in situ and in working order . |
| 4 | Most significantly , the persuasive interview techniques which used to be a feature of most interrogations have been abandoned partly because of the new requirement that there should be a verbatim contemporaneous record of every interview . |
| 5 | They 've got an international training centre there , which used to be a monastery . |
| 6 | The water source is a constant trickle in a well dug beneath what is now the living room but which used to be the Pump room . |
| 7 | He was sent on teaching practice to Cowbridge Grammar School , one of those small country grammar schools which used to be the glory of Wales . |
| 8 | We spent a morning going round the Coaltown museum which gave an excellent presentation of the coal-mining industry which used to be the life-blood of the Coast . |
| 9 | Across from the church are the Municipal Museum and Aquarium , in a fine old Portuguese house which used to be the home of the Count of Ribeiro Real . |
| 10 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 11 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 12 | Wealth : Is a member of Lloyd 's , which used to be an indication of serious cash but these days it can turn pretty iffy if one 's not careful ! |