Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [Wh det] used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In some cases , for example the smoke pollution which used to be especially acute in winter when smoke and fog mixed to produce dense and harmful ‘ smog ’ , tougher standards have led to dramatic improvements in environmental quality . |
| 4 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 5 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 6 | The effect of the Order is that many personal injury claims which used to be pursued in the High Court must now be brought in a county court . |