Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] used [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 2 | Oh it was lovely that was and remember that programme that used to be on , erm Within These Walls about the prison , the women in prison ? |
| 3 | I feel like a Polo Mint , a thick , brittle wall surrounding a void that used to be me . |
| 4 | Built in 1903 it has bronze and marble panels in an Art Nouveau style depicting the friars from the monastery that used to be on the site . |
| 5 | The climate of violence that used to be there inside football has diminished . |
| 6 | He explains : ‘ I 'm a really big Liverpool fan and used to be a Kopite until a few years ago . |
| 7 | There are further curbs on union activity to think up , a pastime that used to be popular but now looks merely gratuitous . |
| 8 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 9 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 10 | Though the standard approach to agoraphobia is an overtly behavioural one of graded exposure , many of the aspects of exposure that used to be described as ‘ non-specific ’ , such as arriving at a realistic interpretation of the week 's events , or at accurate expectations for the future , or dealing with reservations about treatment , are now described in cognitive terms . |
| 11 | Consider for example the distinctive variety that used to be known as ‘ motherese ’ ( now usually called ‘ caretaker register ’ or ‘ child-directed speech ‘ ) . |
| 12 | Although at sixty he was becoming a little stooped , and his hair and beard that used to be jet-black were turning to silver , the force of his personality was undeniable . |
| 13 | It 's that picture of a cat that used to be on Marie 's wall . |
| 14 | Then over the line again there was another shop where Mr A P Jones Do you know , the retired schoolmaster that used to be in Valley , he lives now . |
| 15 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 16 | With so much more of the limelight concentrated on the Test team than used to be the case , pen sketches of every member of the county cricket circuit , along with actual photographs in each case , are a welcome addition . |
| 17 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 18 | Well she does n't like M C Hammer , he was on , and then there was one week with Germans on it and it was , erm , it 's a German group that used to be popular and have n't done a song for ages . |
| 19 | It is often considered that there is much greater sexual tolerance than used to be the case and the public response to homosexuality and lesbianism is sometimes cited as evidence for this . |
| 20 | Deserta Grande is 10km long and 1,500m wide , has only one practical landing place and used to be inhabited . |
| 21 | ‘ the relationship that used to be called that of master and servant . |
| 22 | ‘ Implicitly , if not explicitly , the doctoral thesis has come to be thought of in some countries and institutions as simply the demonstration that a certain amount of research methodology has been transmitted and received , with much less emphasis than used to be the case upon the nature and significance of the topic explored . ’ |
| 23 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 24 | Assisting with the creation of a viable payments union in the area that used to be described as the Soviet Union would be the single most important contribution that the Twelve could make to that unstable and dangerous part of the world . |
| 25 | He surveyed the scene of human chaos and the mud patch that used to be the floor , raised his voice above the high-pitched din and yelled ‘ Who told you to come in here , you silly children ? |
| 26 | While many of the older farm workers nostalgically regret the passing of horses , none regrets the way in which mechanization has removed much of the physical effort and routine drudgery that used to be involved in working on a farm . |
| 27 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 28 | I write them letters , I get people to send er like Photo Gallery in Cardiff , erm I rang them up , they were sending us stuff and it was addressed to a woman that used to be in the ph er activities officer about fou three years ago . |
| 29 | street in central London ; name derived from a chain that used to be thrown across the roadway to prevent its use during divine service in St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 30 | There was the the cod liver what would for animals , that well , the method that used to be used , put it into the copper boiler . |