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Financial control is not as popular with qualified accountants as it used to be.
It used to be a general comment that quality and standards are causalities in herbal drug development.
Reputed to have aphrodisiac qualities, the plant resembles fennel, and used to be collected for sale at London markets.
And parents still pay a lot of it, though the cost is shared out more than it used to be.
Now that Wembley isn't the shopping Mecca it used to be, this big blue warehouse is the only retail magnet in the local area.
Socialist Workers try to horn in on every hot issue and march, but it seems that other groups aren't as bothered by this as they used to be.
The pond is one of the sources of Shakujii River and used to be a place of annual pilgrimage for the rice-farmers living along its banks.
You hear a lot of longtime residents lament that they wish things were the way they used to be.
Mumbai used to be our second home around Baisakhi every year, when the Aga Khan and the Bombay Gold Cup used to be held.
Over the years, many of those who used to be members have died or live in care homes.
For several years, a manta nicknamed Molly used to be the star attraction here.
The topical antibiotic used to be sold as an over-the-counter treatment for boils, school sores, and other skin infections.
Eighteen horses died inside the barn on the backside of what used to be Riverside Downs.
Astra just isn't what it used to be, the old comfortable cardigan for the middle-aged man who had never been told about the male menopause.
Water is an important factor in good tea-making and there used to be three famous springs producing good water for tea.
Many members used to be troubled by various chronic or acute maladies such as arthritis, stomach disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
The seaside baches have become a lot bigger and more posh in the last 50 years than they used to be, and cost a lot more to buy.
It used to be that you'd start the day with a fry-up, then a bacon sarnie when you got to the ground and a pie and chips for lunch.
Now a days, the Tarascans live in small villages that are not as tightly knit as they used to be.
It is all about tactics and you have to concentrate, but I used to be away with the fairies.
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I used to be big on temper tantrums as a child, and some skills are forever.
The man used to be an avid reader, but deteriorating eyesight has put an end to that activity.
It's like small town hospitals used to be back in the old days, modest, but complete and perfect.
Bootleg recordings of live shows used to be of very poor quality and had to be distributed manually.
The limit used to be a year, so when an employer took somebody on, at least that employee would work for a year before the provisions came in.
The yellow bumblebee, which used to be widespread, is now confined to the flower-rich meadows of the machair in the Hebrides.
It used to be that church bells fulfilled the same function in an auditory sense as did church spires in a visual one.
Cuts used to be an infrequent occurrence but these days we seem to have them regularly in our area.
This difference used to be attributed to the asymmetrical shape of the human brain.
I used to be an assistant manager at one of the big chain stores in America.
The tomato used to be called the love apple and this is nothing to do with its passionate colour or suggestive shape.
Jobs used to be more physical and kids walked to school and ran about outside rather than playing on computers.
In old times it used to be given as an injection for such conditions as cerebral concussion and asphyxia from drowning.
Goat's Rue used to be found in every cottage garden because it was used for feeding livestock.
It's just not as simple as it used to be to round up the rubes and tell them what they believe.
Long ago, ice used to be a novelty, shipped across the world in massive chunks carved from frozen lakes and rivers.
Like lonely hearts ads and introduction agencies, cyberdating used to be thought of as a last resort, but that is no longer the case.
I used to be able to withstand the loneliness of my personal life by finding refuge in the comfort and familiarity of work.
This used to be an art practised by waiters in posh restaurants right in front of the diner, and it was a joy to watch.
A couple of swings, a slide and two indentations in the ground where there used to be some roundabouts were all that was left.
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Wearing a bra with visible straps when bra used to be white but has clearly been washed in a colours load is wrong.
Since when was it defamatory to accuse someone of not living in sin, as it used to be called?
It is an interesting site and gives you a look at what the Roman roads through Cumbria used to be like.
When we were little however we used to be made fun of all the time by a boy who moved away.
I find that it clumps well enough that cleaning the litter box is actually less of a hassle now than it used to be.
The baker used to be up early baking gorgeous, hot crusty rolls for breakfast.
When it comes to makeover shows, it used to be a new frock or a lighter shade of lippy would suffice.
The events are highlighted with dragon dances or lion dances, which used to be seen here only on television or in the movies.
It used to be thought that wine drinkers in Britain loved the taste of oak, and that we believed it was a sign of quality.
I used to be furious at them because they kind of ripped us off financially too, but what can I say?
Seduced by satellite television, Indians are not as enamoured of radio as they used to be.
Also, the public service used to be apolitical, but I am afraid we cannot say that today.
It's right where the shantytown used to be, ringed by businesses and middle-class homes.
The scene now means there isn't just one way of finding an artist like there used to be.
McEwan used to be as miserable and as macabre as he was right-on and left-wing.
She used to be really good at athletics and always won things but she can't do that any more.
You used to be able to drive in in your car and pull right up to the plane and get on the plane.
Its bow used to be reasonably intact but, over the past couple of years, the plates have started to fall away from the ribs of the hull.
If you're thinking that the process used to be described as a leveraged buyout, you're absolutely right.
The IUD is a small, plastic and copper device that used to be known as the coil.
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I think there's a lot less of that sort of thing now than there used to be.
It used to be that radio announcers underwent years of training before being allowed on air.
Conferences of philosophers on determinism and freedom aren't the same as they used to be.
A single leaf surviving in manuscript used to be thought to be a forgery, but is now considered a genuine contemporary copy of part of one scene.
In other words, tobacco used to be a herbal medicine but public experimentation led to the smoking of the tobacco leaf.
They used to be frequently invoked as an inspiring example of heroic resistance to injustice and oppression.
It used to be that if someone wanted to stay in residence for more than two years, they had to participate in the campus community.
We built a little palace in our garden, on what used to be the croquet lawn.
The other building is known as the Old Laundry and used to be a laundrette for Phipps Bridge residents.
In physiological conditions angiogenesis used to be related mainly to female reproductiveness.
Outside the limerick form, amphibrachs used to be quite rare in English language verse.
Laughter used to be the best last resort in a grim situation, but nothing's funny anymore.
I've pretty much given up LARP now, but used to be an avid enthusiast of it.
The online versions will be kept up to date and the paper amendments will be available nearly twice as fast as they used to be.
It used to be the case that ambitious people went into politics in the hope that they would one day become famous.
Do these people ever walk around the city and see all the spaces where shops used to be?
It used to be the case that people either got a council house, rented from a private landlord or got a mortgage to buy their home.
I used to be a pub landlady and catering manager, and I can't do it any more.
The point used to be to give alms to poor people on Hallowe'en and if you didn't then bad luck would come to you.
The area which used to be the service yard for Tesco would be transformed into a riverside arena, resembling an amphitheatre.
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After the dissolution of the religious houses, where the poor used to be relieved, there was for long no settled provision for them.
Commercials used to be a great training school for production people learning their craft and this has now disappeared entirely.
It used to be impossible to prove that the legal system produces wrongful convictions.
The Croatian currency is the kuna, apparently named after a small furry animal like a stoat or weasel, the pelts of which used to be traded.
It used to be a real problem to refine sugar before his invention made the process simpler and more profitable.
I see the knot as the branch it used to be and the wormhole as the food source and home for the bug.
Chunky, practical and uninspiring, it used to be nothing more than a dependable workhorse.
It used to be the wonder fibre found in a multitude of products, but now it's a dirty word.
Although it is close to the mainland, it used to be cut off for weeks at a time during stormy weather.
You may be too young to remember them but they used to be kings of rock 'n' roll.
All over the UK it seemed, there were people who wanted to share their recollections of how life used to be lived.
It had big spooky cellars, one of which used to be a wine cellar, but by then lay empty, and another that once would have been the kitchen.
We're trying to recapture the romance of flight as it was in the 1920s or 30s, when flight used to be terribly exciting.
It used to be that rectors or anyone associated with a seminary would have a good chance of going on to be a bishop.
I used to be a major Izzard fan, but in the last couple of years I've gone off him big time.
But the demands have increased hugely and in general there's a lot more aggravation and a lot less fun than there used to be.
He wibbles on about how people used to be persecuted by the Church for saying things about God and the earth going round Uranus and what not.
If you give Danielle another chance, I think she would change and be the girl she once used to be.
I was raised in what used to be the first language of South Africa, Afrikaans.
It used to be that retiring Japanese sumo wrestling champions stayed in the sport after peaking in the ring.
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As a matter of fact, I used to be in that latter group, totally ignorant and aggressive towards even the slightest whiff of cigar smoke.
I rant and rave at the screen, decrying the dumbing down of what used to be a medium for entertaining and educating.
It used to be thought that a typical teenage diet of junk food was the cause of acne, but now we know better.
Although this language was judge-made, it used to be treated as if it was the language of statute.
Their balcony, though small, used to be neat and tidy with well-kept hanging baskets.
We used to be able to eat our meat without it being well-done and cooked to a certain internal temperature.
Buskers used to be arrested for making a racket for the sake of the price of a cup of tea.
Until 2002 Radcliffe used to be an enthusiastic regular on the European grand prix circuit, racing over a variety of distances.
Mirrors used to be an extremely expensive accessory, only affordable by the wealthy.
The beautiful hills that used to be covered with bushes and trees are now bald.
Colin used to be scared at first, but now he just tells Justin to get lost.
It used to be that we could sneak into the reception and help ourselves to jelly beans from the candy jar on the front counter.
It's actually the fourth full-length from a batch of kids who used to be in other bands.
The owners have blogged their personal journey, freely discussing how they used to be homeless and what led them to want to start a bakery.
It used to be a small group, but now everyone who blogs at the company is spreading the message.
The Chinese water deer used to be widely distributed in East Asia but is now found only in east China and Korea.
So basically, it's as good as it used to be, but maybe that's not good enough any more.
It used to be that you couldn't wait to turn 18 so you could go to the Republik.
What he has lost out on, however, is the pinpoint accuracy that used to be the defining quality of his bowling.
The hot weather is baking the already miserable townspeople, and the summer that used to be for sunbathing and holidays is now given to the plague.
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We used to be a team of Scousers from Liverpool and Everton reserves.
Birth control and data mining used to be things they believed in, now both are big government plots to be stopped.
Alex Macedo, the boyish-looking president of Burger King North America used to be an executive at Brahma beer.
This used to be home to the Princess of Wales regiment though most of the soldiers moved out along ago due to budgetary cutbacks.
You know the cartoon segment that used to be in colour in rancid old newspapers?
Basically, the best I can do to explain Taylor's reaction to his father's abusiveness is that his father really did used to be a caring individual, and treat him well.
Rowaida Yousef, as she calls herself, used to be a math teacher and citizen journalist in Damascus.
It used to be cute, and adults would shake their heads and cluck their tongues.
There used to be six rafts on the pond, now they are all gone.
We cannot check as we used to be able to what with no post offices.
Since art reflects life, this ought to mean that women are crazier than they used to be.
The hospital is filthy, without drugs, and women who used to be nurses sit in the corner doing embroidery while patients suffer agonies without pain relief.
The danger is that banks, which are getting cash that used to be in money-market funds, may not recirculate it quickly enough by stepping up their business lending.
We in New Zealand, you know, used to be able to relax a bit, to be able to think that we would sit comfortably while the rest of the world seared, singed, withered.
Sunday used to be a day for rest, recuperation and recreation.
Thanks to the Internet, such assumptions may be easier to deconstruct than they used to be.
The end of the financial year used to be a red-letter day for investors.
As for the houses which used to be on Clevelly Close, heaven knows how much they would be worth now, both in monetary terms and to the area's self-esteem.
Rebecca used to be full of enthusiasm but now she doesn't want to know.
Japan used to be the place where worn-out American players went to die, but with expansion, those American players can continue their mediocre play right here in the States.
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But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.
Zach used to be a diver, until he scarred his chest and lost his nerve when one of his dives came down on the board.
Now we have someone who used to be on Jersey Shore jumping off a diving board.
Some of the three million domestic refrigerators which are discarded every year in the UK used to be exported for re-use, re-conditioned or buried in landfill sites.
It used to be that you'd phone a company and a receptionist would answer.
And that's more or less what University of Alberta student union reps were confronted with last Friday when they came to work to find a blank wall where a mural used to be.
To put it in layman's terms, it is just not as funny as it used to be.
Temple Bar used to be located where the Strand meets Fleet Street, one of the ancient gateways into the City of London, named after the local Inns of Court.
Angioedema sometimes used to be called angioneurotic oedema.
The best thing for me used to be on Friday or Saturday night, when I put on my leathers, got on my Ducati 916 and went hurtling down the motorway at 180 mph.
Recreational and leisure activities used to be two separate entities.
The deck here used to be intact but now it has peeled off and fallen to the seabed, leaving a tangle of debris from below the deck and exposed ribs poking up from the hull.
I used to be into you and your fiance Blake Shelton's tweets, but neither of you have really been tweeting anymore.
It used to be that we said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Alsace wines that used to be dry are often medium sweet nowadays.
It used to be a temple, until the rockslides became more frequent.
The car interior now accommodates bucket seats, a roll cage and new steering, as well as a hollowed area where the back seats used to be for the spare parts.
He's been my best friend for years, and we used to be roomies.
Not only has the brown argus moved into those habitats, it's been using them as stepping-stones to populations of H. chamaecistus that used to be too far apart.
A traditional stabilizer used to be arrowroot, but now agar-agar, carrageen, starches, gelatin, or even pectin are common natural-based stabilizers.
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The area that used to be the commercial center of Hebron is now a ghost town.
It used to be an old distribution business of imported carpet and rugs.
It used to be that we had to wait until an election year for negative campaigning, rumor-mongering, mud-slinging, and win-at-all-cost consultants.
In the past, Hamad has suffered some health problems, in part because he has diabetes and used to be grotesquely obese.
It used to be just criminals and pet dogs that were tagged electronically, but today children are the latest target for location-tracking technology.
The church and the Communist Party were both, it used to be argued, dogmatic and authoritarian institutions, demanding obedience and total commitment.
Smith remains avid for what used to be called the final form of the text.
Even on Hempstead Turnpike, which is sort of the main drag of of Nassau County, running from Queens into Suffolk County, there used to be wide open spaces.
I was waiting for a taxi at a certain taxi stand outside a certain bar that used to be a different bar that was a lot better than the bar that it currently is.
Except for the milestone years, such as 21st birthdays, or the last year of your bachelorhood, very seldom are birthdays the fanfares they used to be.
The top band is much closer to average earnings than it used to be.
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are headed for a split decision on what used to be a decisive day.
I used to be very pretty and could fit into anything that was a size ten.
The pricey mall real estate that used to be JC Penney's biggest asset is rapidly turning into an expensive liability.
I used to be a Land Girl and not all the cows were gentle, hence their names like Lofty and blind Patsy.
Toyota used to be a company with foresight, always ready to take action, but now they have fallen very far behind the curve.
I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.
The lug nut holds the wheel in place during transit, and used to be pitched once the wheel arrived at the factory.
I thought I spied my old time used to be. And it was not nothing, honey, but the side of a tree.
I got talking to an old boy in the pub, and he told me what the village used to be like in the old days.
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In the past, cordials used to be, for the most, part not especially presented as mixable.
Company president Osamu Maebashi, who used to be homeless, was once hailed as a rookie entrepreneur supporting the unemployed and homeless.
The Marine Lake, an artificial excavation in the west of the town, used to be a tourist destination, with fairground rides and a zoo.
The port of Aberystwyth, although it is small and relatively inconsequential today, used to be an important Atlantic Ocean entryway.
The village used to be part of Heighington parish, but the settlement now has its own civil parish.
It used to be seen as a very macho sport which brought out the worst aspects of maleness, but now it's more of a family game.
Livingston used to be part of the Lothians European Parliament constituency.
Before the introduction of the plastic card, the Zimbabwean ID card used to be printed on anodised aluminium.
Commonly known as sneezeweed because it used to be dried for snuff, it likes to be in a bright and sunny position in well-enriched moist soil.
There was a time when children used to be frightened with the concept of a bogeyman.
On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
Commonly known as sneezeweed because it used to be dried and used as snuff, it's a plant with straightforward requirements.
As with all Scots dialects in urban areas, it is not spoken as widely as it used to be in Aberdeen.
This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
It used to be a tradition to leave a coin on the bridge to ensure good luck.
He tries to tell his story about how he used to be a real turtle in school, which the Gryphon interrupts so that they can play a game.
The designs used to be boxier with big, unbroken walls of text and rows of images.
Walk the Wight is the largest walk of the festival, and used to be the last to occur.
It encompasses much of Lincoln's Inn Fields and lies adjacent to the Royal Courts of Justice and Kingsway on what used to be Clare Market.
It used to be attained after four or five years of academic study, after which the student was allowed to begin work on his doctorandus thesis.
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Rugby station used to be served by lines which have now been closed, including lines to Leicester.
Suede used to be the more accepted material for chukkas but times have changed.
The Bank used to be responsible for the regulation and supervision of the banking and insurance industries.
The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, i.e. the Dutch.
The River Severn is considered a navigable river and Gloucester used to be an important port, with shipping having to deal with the bore.
Some of them used to be involved in the shipping trade but have since diversified into other fields.
Unifications of states that used to be together and are reuniting is referred to as reunification.
They are Martin Slattery and Antony Genn, who used to be in Joe Strummer's Mescaleros.
I used to be an inside salesman. My job was to sell via phone and online, and to support several outside salespeople as well.
Yeah, flippity trick things are fun. I've got a friend who has BMXed for 15-16 years! He rules, and he used to be sponsored.
The Angel Shark, for example, used to be in local abundance in our waters, but is now regionally extinct.
Only the familiar smile was as wide as it used to be nearly 30 years ago in her heyday with Yazoo and as a solo artist.
Amar Singh, who used to be a confidante of Mulayam once upon a time, has reportedly joined the mega event on the latter's invitation.
Where I come from a wowser used to be a person addicted to not consuming alcohol.
The same thoughts go for BIXen. That used to be quite possibly the best place in the world to hang out.
Religious displays on public property used to be a big deal.
Most Norwegians are registered at baptism as members of the Church of Norway which used to be the official state religion.
Former Britpop star Tim, who used to be in band Jocasta, later said he is hoping to hit the charts with a love song about Jessie.
Grab a railcard THERE are more national railcards available than there used to be.
On the contrary, it used to be the be-all, end-all of hip-hop journalism.
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Twelve years and six albums down the line, The Walkmen are almost a totally different band to the furious racket merchants they used to be.
The whole point of being a student used to be to get rat-arsed, behave badly and if you were really really lucky, pull.
Traditionally, zori are worn to and from the place of practice. Zori are similar to flip-flops and used to be made from straw.
He used to be impatient of poems about budding flowers and zephyrous breezes.
Brazil used to be the guardians of the beautiful game, Germany the ruthless, clinical champions of football realpolitik.
Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted.
There used to be a saying that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. Be enthusiastic and you will always sell.
Beckham used to be cripplingly shy and lacking in self-confidence.
It used to be that songs could not spell things out, but society is more liberal now.
A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
Bilingual railway station signs are now more frequent than they used to be.
It used to be a pleasant little community, until the leaders sold out to the developers.
Roughly one third of the country used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now home to huge numbers of Hungarians.
Do you know I've not been to a ball in ages? I used to be quite the dancer in my salad days, if you can believe such a thing.
She used to be a dead ringer for Elaine on Seinfeld until this election.
Lese majesty used to be a high crime, for which royal or imperial courts often put offenders to death.
Northampton Balloon Festival used to be a major event in Northampton, but since being scaled down, it has been poorly attended.
I've heard tell that there used to be highwaymen in this part of the country.
The Lord Chancellor used to be the presiding officer of the House of Lords by right of prescription.
I used to be impressed by a drummer liking what I did, so I pretty much only got a drum perspective, but I've gone wide and I've gone narrow.
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As of 2010 Agriculture used to be the principal foreign exchange earner of Nigeria.
The relative pronoun which refers to things rather than persons, as in the shirt, which used to be red, is faded.
One such home, in the city of Sochi, used to be a sanitarium.
Elmore Leonard is as dependable as a Ford used to be and as knowing as a New York fashion designer.
Furthermore, there used to be a gulag fish factory here where prisoners worked during Soviet times.
The gang, working in the north west of the island, will tackle minor problems which used to be dealt with by lengthmen.
The four northern Islands used to be a single landmass known as Santa Rosae.
The largest toothpick manufacturing plant in the United States used to be located in Strong, Maine.
It used to be known for dweomercraft, the craft of healers, magicians, those who know spells, those who know the sourcery of words.
Thorn trees used to be more common in coastal areas of the islands but have largely been cleared.
I used to be obsessed with the second-rate films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Women's fragrances used to be common in all levels of concentration, but today are mainly seen in parfum, EdP and EdT concentrations.
Since 1993, the country has followed a policy of privatisation of certain economic sectors which used to be in the hands of the government.
You used to be such a politician. Do you remember the debates we held in Fitzroy's rooms?
Uber provides him with work during what used to be downtime.
Its capital used to be Ternate, on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera, but has been moved to Sofifi on Halmahera itself.
He comes without almost any snark, which used to be a modern American late-night talk show host's must-have quality.
There is so little place for cemeteries that every ten years bones used to be exhumed and removed into an ossuary, to make room for new burials.
The same thing can be said for lightning bugs, which used to be first seen in late June.
Reception areas for new cars now fill the Eastern Docks where passengers, dry docks and trains used to be.
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Diddy as he is commonly known in the music world, recently revealed on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show', that he used to be a bed wetter as a child.
Truro's bayside beaches used to be a petrified forest, before it became a beach.
Although a fraction of what it used to be remains, Caen once boasted an extensive rail and tram network.
It used to be a speakeasy frequented by Al Capone when he was in Miami to create an alibi for a rubout in Chicago.
The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
Used to be apple orchards, used to be the river and irrigation ditches that watered the apples, used to be mining towns.
Though the common gender took what used to be the feminine inflections in Danish, it matches the masculine inflections in Norwegian.
Dutch dialects and regional languages are not spoken as often as they used to be.
I only said that she wasn't as young as she used to be, and her response was out of proportion.
It used to be the northernmost inhabited island, but forfeited that accolade when the lighthouse was automated and the last residents moved out.
It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.
The Northern German area north of the Lower Elbe used to be called North Albingia in the Middle Ages.
And then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon.
These are early days in the process, but the signs are already there that Brum can benefit from links with friends beyond what used to be called the Bamboo Curtain.
Wolves defender Matt Doherty reveals he used to be a bit of a blubberer.
The register can be consulted in the National Archives reading room and the index used to be searchable as an online database on the National Archives web site.
Just getting a job used to be enough to enable people to become homeowners, Retsinas adds, but today workers go out on a limb to purchase property.
It is known that the building on the corner, which is now the Urban Taphouse pub, was a slaughterhouse and where the NCP car park used to be was a cattle yard.
In archeology, a hut circle is a circular or oval depression in the ground with evidence of a low stone wall around it that used to be the foundation of a round house.
Alloa Athletic evolved from Clackmannan County, Dundee United used to be Dundee Hibernian and East Stirling were originally known as the Bainsford Bluebonnets.
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It used to be a working language in the British Somaliland protectorate.
A The colours are very specific to the TV test cards that used to be broadcast to enable television cameras and receivers to be adjusted to show the picture correctly.
Some locals who used to be in rags live it up at posh hotels.
Now the silver fox is having another go at the acting lark, this time as Welsh crooner Ron, an exbottle factory worker who used to be a Teddy boy.
This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world.
All of my body hair used to be light, but recently it became really dark.
Eleanor's ancestors claimed the huge County of Toulouse as it used to be the central power of the ancient Duchy of Aquitaine back in the times of Odo the Great.
Newspapers such as New Straits Times and Berita Harian used to be published in broadsheet, but were published in smaller size instead, from 2005 and 2008, respectively.
When I used to be able to afford to go on holiday to the Canaries I was appalled at the lawlessness of motorists and others who parked on and overtook at zebra crossings.
Making the aviette leave the ground with the ground speed attained by pedaling is as huge a task as it used to be to the early aeroplanes to leave the ground.
Drugs in athletics used to be the sixty-four thousand dollar question.
Coach journeys used to be dreary outings in cramped charabancs.
He idled at a red light, saw two yups in matching cranberry crewnecks and khaki cargo shorts sitting on the pavement outside what used to be Primo's Pizza.
Irreligion in Germany is strongest in the former East Germany, which used to be predominantly Protestant before state atheism, and major metropolitan areas.
Whilst those wanting to stay cited that most of the UK's trade was made with the EU, those arguing to leave say that its trade was not as important as it used to be.
I used to be a major Xanderista. But this season, he's bugged me a lot.
It used to be claimed that this was one of the few national galleries that had all its works on permanent exhibition, but this is no longer the case.
It used to be that the Devils were about the snooziest team in the AHL to watch, but that has not been the case this year under new coach John MacLean.
No doubt all the office staff they made redundant last year will have particularly enjoyed seeing what used to be their salaries pay for an animated choo-choo train.
It used to be that you could take off the cowling, wrap plastic bags around the electrical stuff and vacuum pump, and blast away with engine degunker.

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