Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] used to [be] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 2 | There was still an ingrained suspicion of what used to be called ‘ combinations ’ . |
| 3 | So I 'm put into the hands of what used to be called ‘ Wardrobe ’ but now has the grander title of ‘ Costume Designers ’ , who are keen for me to join the twentieth century sartorially , which would involve climbing into one of those colossal suits . |
| 4 | Even here in the dusty , bounding Toyota , this old man has a distinctiveness , the clubbable , dependable qualities of what used to be called a gentleman . |
| 5 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 6 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 7 | Almost daily , my local newspaper , the South Wales Evening Post , publishes examples of what used to be called taking and driving away — joyriding . |
| 8 | Both countries have managed to become the most visibly successful economies in what used to be called their respective ‘ blocs ’ . |
| 9 | It would have been nice to go into partnership with my son Paul , but he deals in what used to be called the avant-garde , the most difficult stuff to sell , and wants to be in New York . |
| 10 | The first record of elephants in what used to be called Assyria is dated 1700 BC . |
| 11 | It aims to train students in what used to be called " close reading " and to provide them with a critical awareness of the ideological , socio-cultural and historical constraints on the perception of what constitutes " literature " . |
| 12 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 13 | The arrival of Charlie , Louise , Timothy and Alexandra put an end to what used to be called ‘ normal life ’ , including quiet , civilised Christmas gatherings with friends over drinks . |
| 14 | We 're going to go on to what used to be called club foot which is a fairly gross word word Right |
| 15 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 16 | Interestingly , the pain this causes shows itself as what used to be called ‘ groin strain ’ . |
| 17 | William gazed out of the window as they drove through what used to be called The Village and was now just another suburban shopping centre . |
| 18 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 19 | Same Time , Next Year is a lively , humorous account of a developing relationship , at first sexual but later broadening into a touching tenderness , of two people long married to others , who meet once every year in a California motel for what used to be called ‘ a dirty weekend ’ . |