Example sentences of "what used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barr , in what used to be a general policy for museum curators , was not writing a passionate defence of the work his museum exhibited . |
| 2 | Interestingly , the pain this causes shows itself as what used to be called ‘ groin strain ’ . |
| 3 | The process has evolved over the decade with the linking up of what used to be short runs into long , cross-country routes . |
| 4 | Llanelli 's 14-12 win was also a reminder of what used to be . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 7 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 8 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 9 | Both countries have managed to become the most visibly successful economies in what used to be called their respective ‘ blocs ’ . |
| 10 | Here by the Oberbaum bridge across the icy Spree is what used to be a quintessential Cold War Berlin scene . |
| 11 | The placing of Uruguay and Colombia in the third pool has satisfied the South Americans , and what used to be called the Iron Curtain countries can not complain . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Court architects set the fashion , and what used to be an essentially English style took on a strong foreign influence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What used to be swamp and marsh on the park 's fringes are now the suburbs of Miami , Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach . |
| 16 | That would shatter Germany 's present mood of economic optimism , already faltering as the difficulties of modernising what used to be East Germany grow clearer . |
| 17 | THE Cubans have pulled out of what used to be the People 's Republic of the Congo , and is now just the Congo Republic . |
| 18 | In place of the ‘ layer cake ’ of eight allied army corps lined up along what used to be West Germany 's eastern border , there will be maybe half as many . |
| 19 | In many the class-rooms are simply partitioned cubicles in what used to be a large hall … . |
| 20 | The Turks then flog them along the tourist drag between the Brandenburg Gate and what used to be Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 21 | Verbal abuse in the streets , broken windows and ‘ Russians go home ’ graffiti are common , and things came to a head recently in Perleberg , not far from what used to be the West/East German border . |
| 22 | There are over 50,000 Vietnamese in what used to be the GDR brought over in the Eighties as Gastarbeiter ( guest workers ) to do menial factory jobs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Many men feel a very great sense of despair and discomfort upon entering what used to be their home with their wife , but what is now a house that seems to demand a lot of time-consuming work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | What used to be a real chase had become a ritual . |
| 28 | On a piece of rocky coastline and out of what used to be a quaint old fishing village , has sprung one of the liveliest resorts in Corfu . |
| 29 | It is the ‘ big ’ house of Rye , built in 1722 by a local man , James Lamb , taking in what used to be three smaller houses on the same site . |
| 30 | It 's what used to be called A Good Read . |