Example sentences of "what used to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 2 | As soon as David moved into my flat , what used to be the dining room was no longer the dining room — it was now full of audio equipment , stylophones , keyboards , amplifiers and huge speakers . |
| 3 | THE Cubans have pulled out of what used to be the People 's Republic of the Congo , and is now just the Congo Republic . |
| 4 | Verbal abuse in the streets , broken windows and ‘ Russians go home ’ graffiti are common , and things came to a head recently in Perleberg , not far from what used to be the West/East German border . |
| 5 | There are over 50,000 Vietnamese in what used to be the GDR brought over in the Eighties as Gastarbeiter ( guest workers ) to do menial factory jobs . |
| 6 | In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League . |
| 7 | All are comprehensible as symptoms of social disorientation , of the fraying , and sometimes the snapping , of the threads of what used to be the network that bound people together in society . |
| 8 | But it 's too late now ; there , as in most parts of what used to be the Eastern bloc , telecommunications are being upgraded post-haste . |
| 9 | It has been installed in the Middle East and will soon be in use in what used to be the Eastern block . |
| 10 | And from what used to be the iron state of East Germany . |
| 11 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 12 | The news that ICL Plc is to acquire Warrington , Cheshire-based Technology Holdings Plc for a maximum of £40m seems to set the seal on the success of the management buyout team at what used to be the distribution arm of MBS Plc — a business that MBS top management felt was such a drain on its corporate resources that it could n't wait to let the company go . |
| 13 | When that breaks down , they 're sent to what used to be the poorhouse . |
| 14 | This change is already under way in what used to be the most clearly defined of all departments — research . |
| 15 | They and their guests never get on each other 's nerves , because they have self-contained accommodation in what used to be the barns and outhouses . |
| 16 | There 's an old lady living next door to what used to be the Armitage house ; she was there when Mrs Armitage was alive and Inez was her companion . ’ |
| 17 | Louise was standing in what used to be the studio long ago , when Irena still taught ballet . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | The question dominated our discussions as we gathered in what used to be the long Chapter Room of the Knights Templar . |
| 20 | Erm , they 've demolished all the north side , you know what used to be the dynamics and that 's all gone , it 's gon na become , you know , it 's not very , that 's becoming a , well , in the process of becoming a business park , but I mean , mean well , I mean , it , it , it 's all executive erm , and you know business stuff and on the surface , you know , we 're still reasonably busy with , with that sort of thing , but erm , no that , they have , the only one four six we see now is just on the company shuttle just you know until they complete the close down of the factory , they shuttle them up to Woodford , er , er , and back every day . |
| 21 | Clauses often say that the accountant appointed as an expert must be a partner in an " international " firm , which has been interpreted to mean one of what used to be the " big eight " firms . |
| 22 | All work has been concentrated on to what used to be the body plant . |
| 23 | The breakthrough came 6 weeks after the police dismantled the garage and started ripping up the garden at what used to be the home of Joan 's husband , David Main . |
| 24 | Now Lord and Lady Dormand live in what used to be the shrimp-sized county of Rutland smack in the middle of the most solidly Tory constituency in the land . |
| 25 | What used to be The Safe . |
| 26 | But since I slept in , what used to be the maid 's bedroom , I was always |
| 27 | what used to be the bathroom the little pantry , did that use to be the bathroom ? |