Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , the radical Maoist lesbian communes of what used to be Berkeley University are rather less keen on topless sunbathing than the nubiles of Saint Tropez . |
| 2 | Looking at each other , wordlessly grappling , two people from the same small segment of the country had unknowingly provoked in each other ill-formed shapes of what used to be home , and as yet unrecognized images of what used to be themselves . |
| 3 | Looking at each other , wordlessly grappling , two people from the same small segment of the country had unknowingly provoked in each other ill-formed shapes of what used to be home , and as yet unrecognized images of what used to be themselves . |
| 4 | In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League . |
| 5 | Their ritualled life is interrupted only by Saxon 's unclear memories of what used to be , along with the movement of the grotesque Brogan in the ‘ upper world ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Delivering emergency aid in the mountainous regions of what used to be Yugoslavia is a dangerous business . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Almost daily , my local newspaper , the South Wales Evening Post , publishes examples of what used to be called taking and driving away — joyriding . |
| 10 | All are comprehensible as symptoms of social disorientation , of the fraying , and sometimes the snapping , of the threads of what used to be the network that bound people together in society . |
| 11 | But it 's too late now ; there , as in most parts of what used to be the Eastern bloc , telecommunications are being upgraded post-haste . |