Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It used to be called the ‘ self-build movement ’ , and the wearing of beards and open-toed sandals was close to compulsory . |
| 5 | Vitamin A used to be called the anti-infective vitamin because a deficiency reduces the resistance of certain parts of the body to infection . |
| 6 | The Sun used to be called the Daily Herald . |
| 7 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 8 | William gazed out of the window as they drove through what used to be called The Village and was now just another suburban shopping centre . |
| 9 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 10 | They used call the it used to be called the attic you see in them days . |
| 11 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 12 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 13 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 14 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 15 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 16 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 17 | In Britain , the great limestone development of early Carboniferous ( Mississippian ) age used to be called the " Mountain Limestone " because it formed so much of our upland scenery . |
| 18 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 19 | •The tough course at Wentworth ( Surrey ) used to be called the Burma Road . |
| 20 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 21 | The ICAEW resolve the problem by choosing an expert from amongst the top 20 – 30 firms , rather than those who used to be called the " big eight " . |
| 22 | It used to be called the Great Western railway , which was built in the 1830s under the guidance of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
| 23 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 24 | ‘ La Piazza : used to be called the Padovani . ’ |
| 25 | Stag parties and hen parties used to be held the night before the wedding , the last opportunity for the girls and boys to go out , or stay at home , with friends of their own sex . |
| 26 | There are seven grades to be allotted , from A to G. Grades A , B , and C are aligned to the old O level grades A , B , and C , and to CSE grade I. Grades D and E are aligned to O level grades D and E and to CSE 2 and 3 ; while grade F is aligned to CSE grade 4 , which used to be considered the average grade in the population as a whole . |
| 27 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 28 | Canada ought to be given the encouragement of making a serious bid . |
| 29 | ‘ She thinks he ought to be given the sack , but Mr Potter wo n't hear of it . |
| 30 | The House ought to be given the opportunity to see another document : the document that sets out Labour 's programme , and presents the alternative that Labour Members are well able to encapsulate in amendments to motions but always fight shy of actually producing . |