Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 2 | What is now the ‘ over-sixties ’ rest room' used to be the Mining Men 's Reading Room . |
| 3 | There 's an old lady living next door to what used to be the Armitage house ; she was there when Mrs Armitage was alive and Inez was her companion . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 6 | And the Argentine embassy used to be the London house of the 7th Duke of Richmond , one of whose great-grandsons was also among the guests : Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox , formerly our ambassador to Spain . |
| 7 | This room used to be the bike sheds . |
| 8 | This used to be the Hotel Santa Clara but is now used by telephone engineers . |
| 9 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 10 | It used to be the south east midlands , now it 's classed as the south midlands but Bedford , twenty one miles along the road there , and they call it the south . |
| 11 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 12 | The news that ICL Plc is to acquire Warrington , Cheshire-based Technology Holdings Plc for a maximum of £40m seems to set the seal on the success of the management buyout team at what used to be the distribution arm of MBS Plc — a business that MBS top management felt was such a drain on its corporate resources that it could n't wait to let the company go . |
| 13 | He used to be the marketing director of Butlins and obviously these trends were important to him when he was at Butlins because Butlins was actually losing the market . |
| 14 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 15 | The present drawing-room , which runs the length of the three central ground floor windows and used to be the entrance hall ( until the 1840 addition on the west side was made ) , must have stunned the neighbours with its sumptuousness . |
| 16 | As soon as David moved into my flat , what used to be the dining room was no longer the dining room — it was now full of audio equipment , stylophones , keyboards , amplifiers and huge speakers . |
| 17 | And from what used to be the iron state of East Germany . |
| 18 | The newly reopened galleries used to be the reception rooms of the Medici Pope Pius IV . |
| 19 | All work has been concentrated on to what used to be the body plant . |
| 20 | I mean you u some of them used to be the growth roll up , you know the |
| 21 | A furniture shop of some sort there where the used to be the Spar shop I think , many years ago was n't it like a have n't been there for , probably about since , Morris 's day you see , and that service station . |
| 22 | My view has long been that 40 ought to be the cut-off age for parenting or you 'd be unfairly old for your child . |
| 23 | Like at the moment if there 's anything goes wrong with possessions , it really ought to be the project manager sorting it out . |