Example sentences of "which [vb mod] to be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this shift is due to the reduction in pre-marital conceptions , which used to be a major precipitating factor in marriage ( Britton 1980 ) . |
| 2 | The Icelanders called one of their finest gushers of boiling water and steam Geysir , and this name was applied subsequently to all those depressing pieces of gas-fired plumbing which used to be a familiar part of the British bathroom scene . |
| 3 | And just to cap all this mythological irrelevance , the island of Vulcano is now linked by a small spit of land to another small volcano , Vulcanello , which used to be a separate island , and it has been suggested that this pair comprised the ‘ Scylla and Charybdis ’ , beloved of Homer and modern politicians , but then so have several other island pairs in the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | Funding delays are the latest controversy to surround the building , which used to be a busy shopping centre off Skinnergate . |
| 5 | Much of it is in the middle of the Pacific , you see , which used to be a common area but the only people who could , at the moment , have the technology to tap those resources are the very advanced states so there is a dispute about the right to develop those or not . |
| 6 | It is a handsome conversion and gives a catholic flavour to a street which used to be the exclusive preserve of contemporary Western art . |
| 7 | They 'd bought this enormous house , Four Winds , which used to be the local manor or something . |
| 8 | Some of these names represent principalities and have a political significance ; others are simply regional tags which identify the surrounding population , for example the Solland in the far south , which used to be an independent realm but which is now part of Wissenland . |