Example sentences of "which used to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collusion , which used to be a bar to divorce , is no longer prohibited , and indeed a Committee chaired by Mrs Justice Booth recommended in 1985 that the parties should in future be entitled to file joint petitions for divorce . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And just to cap all this mythological irrelevance , the island of Vulcano is now linked by a small spit of land to another small volcano , Vulcanello , which used to be a separate island , and it has been suggested that this pair comprised the ‘ Scylla and Charybdis ’ , beloved of Homer and modern politicians , but then so have several other island pairs in the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | At Harle Syke , just outside the town to the north-east , Queen Street Mill , which used to be a cotton mill , has been preserved by the local council in association with Pennine Heritage , and the building 's steam engine , which powered the looms , remains in situ and in working order . |
| 5 | Much of this shift is due to the reduction in pre-marital conceptions , which used to be a major precipitating factor in marriage ( Britton 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Er , which used to be a problem up until about three or four years ago when independent taxation came in in nineteen ninety . |
| 7 | They 've got an international training centre there , which used to be a monastery . |
| 8 | Most significantly , the persuasive interview techniques which used to be a feature of most interrogations have been abandoned partly because of the new requirement that there should be a verbatim contemporaneous record of every interview . |
| 9 | Much of it is in the middle of the Pacific , you see , which used to be a common area but the only people who could , at the moment , have the technology to tap those resources are the very advanced states so there is a dispute about the right to develop those or not . |
| 10 | Funding delays are the latest controversy to surround the building , which used to be a busy shopping centre off Skinnergate . |