Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [modal v] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill Street used to be a problem , with bucks and bobby-beating . |
| 2 | This particular store in Clapham 's Abbeville Road used to be an ordinary branch of Thresher . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's quite old now , of course , but Sir David Wyndham used to be a really big cheese in the business world … definitely a grand fromage ! ’ |
| 4 | If that 's the case , then the Panda Selecta ought to be a popular choice for many town buyers , given that it 's less than £6,000 . |
| 5 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 6 | Mick Davies used to be a prison warder at Long Lartin jail . |
| 7 | Husband John used to be a professional boxer … and has beaten former heavyweight champ Joe Bugner on more than one occasion . |
| 8 | Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes . |
| 9 | Cos it , W W F , Paul Hogan used to be the champion |
| 10 | CHRIS SHEEHAN used to be a heroin addict . |
| 11 | The party 's just begun for Democrats in New Jersey : New Jersey used to be the butt of TV comics . |
| 12 | No , no Auntie Annie used to be a stickler on |
| 13 | 19 year old Private Clifford Sampson used to be a painter before joining the army . |