Example sentences of "[that] used to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , of course , the word processor or computer can take over much that used to be printed . |
| 2 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 3 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 4 | The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean . |
| 5 | ‘ the relationship that used to be called that of master and servant . |
| 6 | There used to be er a fish shop and er that used to be called 's that fish shop did . |
| 7 | Given the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons , is not this a wonderful opportunity to approach the republics , particularly those that want to declare themselves nuclear-free zones — something that used to be sneered at by Conservative Members — in order to eliminate those weapons from the world ? |
| 8 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 9 | It is a spectacularly successful conjuring trick that capitalism in the West has pulled off : with one hand cutting down on paid labour by encouraging people to regard the jobs that used to be done by other workers as new forms of leisure , whilst with the other hand establishing new ( and more profitable ) economic sectors around voluntary pastoral care , such as care for the elderly . |
| 10 | It sets free nuclear explosives that used to be tucked away in superpower arsenals , and must now be disposed of |
| 11 | erm And of course there 's a great deal of history which is now being written which is much more exciting than most of the history that used to be written in the past . |
| 12 | Eldorado Close got its name from a kind of needle that used to be made locally . |
| 13 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 14 | Consider for example the distinctive variety that used to be known as ‘ motherese ’ ( now usually called ‘ caretaker register ’ or ‘ child-directed speech ‘ ) . |
| 15 | I know that he has first-hand experience of the benefits of GM schools , as the school that used to be known as Wold Newton transferred to grant-maintained status a few months ago and is showing the way and what can be achieved as a result of a move to grant-maintained status . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Erm , so that is the one that used to be used , and to some extent is now used . |
| 20 | This was the kind of language that used to be attributed to the sharper end of the second-hand book world . |
| 21 | It 's a poem by a fellow called the Earl of Rochester that used to be recited when someone was elected . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Marie passed the old chalets , neglected and boarded up now , their paint peeling , their woodwork rotting away , that used to be rented out to holidaymakers . |
| 24 | Instead it 's a confused product of jobbing hacks and sad people out of their depth — none more so than George ‘ Columbus ’ Corraface , a handsome trier reminiscent of those blokes that used to be out-acted by skeletons in Sinbad films . |
| 25 | ‘ After the breed of sheep — huge creatures — that used to be bred around here . ’ |
| 26 | I did n't like The Beatles or the Stones until a couple of years ago , 'cos that used to be drummed into me when I was growing up . |
| 27 | There must be oodles of territory in Saxony and Thuringia that used to be owned by the East German government . |
| 28 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |