Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you a good programme which used to be on was erm oh fucking Auf Wiedersehn Pet . |
| 2 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 3 | We spent a morning going round the Coaltown museum which gave an excellent presentation of the coal-mining industry which used to be the life-blood of the Coast . |
| 4 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 5 | Gogar , Loch , and Gyle keep popping up in suggestions being chewed over by councillors , but there 's an intriguing bit which used to be known as The Flashees , later Flashing Meadow . |
| 6 | The ladder is where the buckets er er run on you see that 's the ladder like that from what they call the top tumbler what used to be the top tumbler used to have five sides |
| 7 | Named after the strips of lead which used to be inserted between lines of metal type . |
| 8 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 9 | In some cases , for example the smoke pollution which used to be especially acute in winter when smoke and fog mixed to produce dense and harmful ‘ smog ’ , tougher standards have led to dramatic improvements in environmental quality . |
| 10 | He 'd just look at us and wave and smile until we got to Khabarovsk which used to be named Katerinberg and was the city where , supposedly , the Czar and his family were murdered . |
| 11 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 12 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 13 | She says it 's less noise , and traffic which used to be nose to tail now flows freely . |
| 14 | However , and it also has a down- side because now the contractors will be able to see the information which used to be confidential that local authorities will be putting on the table , but the point is it 's a chink , it 's a way forward we need to build on this . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For the first time people began to sit up and listen to the facts about a problem which used to be swept silently aside . |
| 18 | THE Dutch government is not fond of Lieut-Colonel Desi Bouterse , who runs the army and scares politicians in Suriname , the Latin American country which used to be Dutch Guiana . |
| 19 | Across from the church are the Municipal Museum and Aquarium , in a fine old Portuguese house which used to be the home of the Count of Ribeiro Real . |
| 20 | His great strength is that he looks a small-'c' conservative , with that appealing moderation which used to be thought Tory . |
| 21 | The direct start to Canol , Joe Brown 's classic E1 on Craig Ddu in the Llanberis Pass , is a hard pitch which used to be graded Severe because Doug Belshaw , who ascended it first , ‘ only led severes ’ . |
| 22 | It is a handsome conversion and gives a catholic flavour to a street which used to be the exclusive preserve of contemporary Western art . |