Example sentences of "[Wh det] used to [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal was won by TVMM against strong competition from Scottish Televison , which used to be part of the same organisation as Grampian . |
| 2 | Meco , which used to be part of the Dowty Group , makes mining equipment including pit props . |
| 3 | Left : This Welsh dresser is in the second kitchen , which used to be Elizabeth Jane 's nursery when she was a child . |
| 4 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 5 | Grass , which used to be mown , is left to revert to meadow , and native trees planted between the nuclear reactors and the accelerators . |
| 6 | Recently some areas which used to be moorland have been enclosed and ploughed , mainly on Exmoor . |
| 7 | She says it 's less noise , and traffic which used to be nose to tail now flows freely . |
| 8 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 9 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | That would shatter Germany 's present mood of economic optimism , already faltering as the difficulties of modernising what used to be East Germany grow clearer . |
| 12 | Motorists from what used to be East Germany ca n't cope with West German traffic . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Benjamin , impervious to the scene , leaned closer and sniffed at what used to be Waldegrave 's mouth . |
| 15 | Today we learn of nine hundred job losses at what used to be B R E L in the engineering section . |
| 16 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What used to be pie in the sky when you die has , quite rightly , become pie now , please . |
| 19 | The Catering Committee will be considering whether what used to be St. Stephen 's tavern could help by providing facilities for visitors . |
| 20 | It is triable summarily so that now what used to be rape may be prosecuted as a summary offence punishable with a maximum of six months ’ imprisonment or a fine of not more than $500 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Namely : Sussex , Middlesex , Essex and what used to be Wessex . |
| 23 | The Turks then flog them along the tourist drag between the Brandenburg Gate and what used to be Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 24 | But neither should he allow in only a handful of those who are being persecuted in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 25 | So we pray for peace between the factions in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | What would be the implications for the other republics of Yugoslavia , or what used to be Yugoslavia ? |
| 27 | Delivering emergency aid in the mountainous regions of what used to be Yugoslavia is a dangerous business . |
| 28 | RAF medical crews are on standby to fly out to the war zone in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | What used to be Mayes the food shop . |
| 30 | 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 . |