Example sentences of "used to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of those with AIDS in 1986 . |
| 2 | In 1986 , the classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of AIDS related deaths . |
| 3 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 4 | The most popular size used to be the 4½in ( 108mm ) square tile , still available in a limited number of ranges , but displaced from the No 1 position by larger 152mm ( 6in ) square tiles , which are quicker to fix ( you need only 44 to cover a square metre of wall , compared with 86 of the smaller tiles , and there 's less grouting to do as well ) . |
| 5 | The party 's just begun for Democrats in New Jersey : New Jersey used to be the butt of TV comics . |
| 6 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 7 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 8 | It used to be the normal practice to adapt buildings for different purposes over their lives . |
| 9 | Keith used to be the organist at St Mary 's in Woodstock . |
| 10 | The present drawing-room , which runs the length of the three central ground floor windows and used to be the entrance hall ( until the 1840 addition on the west side was made ) , must have stunned the neighbours with its sumptuousness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 13 | The development of new fonts used to be the business of companies like Linotype and Monotype , which built typesetters with proprietary technology . |
| 14 | The Tejapaibuls ( banking , brewing , distilling and property ) used to be the most powerful family in Thai business . |
| 15 | THE Cubans have pulled out of what used to be the People 's Republic of the Congo , and is now just the Congo Republic . |
| 16 | IT USED to be the east Prussian city of Königsberg , where the philosopher Immanuel Kant worked and died . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Mulverins have a farm there now — they used to be the stewards when I was a girl . |
| 20 | And the Argentine embassy used to be the London house of the 7th Duke of Richmond , one of whose great-grandsons was also among the guests : Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox , formerly our ambassador to Spain . |
| 21 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 22 | ‘ This place used to be the Turkish administrative headquarters in Jaffa . |
| 23 | This type of neonatal eye infection used to be the commonest cause of childhood blindness , but is now comparatively rare in civilized countries . |
| 24 | Urea formaldehyde foam used to be the most common and the cheapest method , but this is not recommended now for use in high exposure areas such as hillsides , or in tall buildings . |
| 25 | ‘ England , ’ he was saying , ‘ used to be the most civilized country in the world . |
| 26 | What is now the ‘ over-sixties ’ rest room' used to be the Mining Men 's Reading Room . |
| 27 | It is a large breed and , known as the Big Red , it used to be the biggest breed in Britain . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If the C of E used to be the Tory Party at prayer ( and is now the Democrats ) , the Methodists are the Labour Party at prayer . |
| 30 | It used to be the girls ’ parade . |