Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [modal v] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 2 | There are further curbs on union activity to think up , a pastime that used to be popular but now looks merely gratuitous . |
| 3 | Although at sixty he was becoming a little stooped , and his hair and beard that used to be jet-black were turning to silver , the force of his personality was undeniable . |
| 4 | Well she does n't like M C Hammer , he was on , and then there was one week with Germans on it and it was , erm , it 's a German group that used to be popular and have n't done a song for ages . |
| 5 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 6 | While many of the older farm workers nostalgically regret the passing of horses , none regrets the way in which mechanization has removed much of the physical effort and routine drudgery that used to be involved in working on a farm . |
| 7 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 8 | That is not being disingenuous : that is asking for the kind of conduct that used to be normal on both sides of the House . |
| 9 | A small lodge house that used to be some sort of appendage of Burnage Court is currently for sale through Hamptons . |