Example sentences of "used to [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type . |
| 2 | They all have alluvial flood plains or levels of wet permanent pasture in which extensive flooding used to be of frequent occurrence , but many improvement schemes have been instituted in recent years with stretches of river being straightened and flood banks raised . |
| 3 | Sheep used to be of great importance to the British economy . |
| 4 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 5 | They used to be in that size I , I ca n't remember now , that size used to be I ca n't remember , no . |
| 6 | If religion is less significant than it used to be in modern societies , it may be that the emotional issues are resolved too , or that they have found other modes of expression , in the arts and entertainments , and in political movements . |
| 7 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |