Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [pers pn] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 2 | This is Amazonia as it used to be , before the coming of the settlers and the seekers after gold . |
| 3 | This letter produced one extra volunteer , and several phone calls to me , all of which were in favour of the project , and several from older people who recalled Donkey Lane as it used to be . |
| 4 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 5 | But for some villagers who the remember the Lambourn as it used to be , all that matters is that it flows once again . |
| 6 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 7 | that 's the only link with Caldmore as it used to be and Caldmore as it is now |