Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] used to [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 3 | Delivering emergency aid in the mountainous regions of what used to be Yugoslavia is a dangerous business . |
| 4 | OK , the radical Maoist lesbian communes of what used to be Berkeley University are rather less keen on topless sunbathing than the nubiles of Saint Tropez . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Public Windows Initiative — with the Common Open Software Environment at its side — will try to claim the moral high ground on the issue of open specifications and is likely to cloak Microsoft in what used to be IBM Corp 's mantle . |
| 8 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 9 | But neither should he allow in only a handful of those who are being persecuted in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | So we pray for peace between the factions in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | RAF medical crews are on standby to fly out to the war zone in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | Motorists from what used to be East Germany ca n't cope with West German traffic . |
| 13 | Today we learn of nine hundred job losses at what used to be B R E L in the engineering section . |
| 14 | Benjamin , impervious to the scene , leaned closer and sniffed at what used to be Waldegrave 's mouth . |