Example sentences of "used [prep] [be] called the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ La Piazza : used to be called the Padovani . ’ |
| 2 | William gazed out of the window as they drove through what used to be called The Village and was now just another suburban shopping centre . |
| 3 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 4 | It would have been nice to go into partnership with my son Paul , but he deals in what used to be called the avant-garde , the most difficult stuff to sell , and wants to be in New York . |
| 5 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 6 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 7 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 8 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 9 | They used call the it used to be called the attic you see in them days . |
| 10 | The placing of Uruguay and Colombia in the third pool has satisfied the South Americans , and what used to be called the Iron Curtain countries can not complain . |