Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [prep] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 2 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |
| 3 | Erm , Jane 's twenty six , and before that used to be a hairdresser , as you can tell . |
| 4 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 5 | " That used to be a fence , which was good because we could let the little boy play out there . |
| 6 | My father used to have what they call a lead line that used to be a wire with a all marked with feet and fathoms on and sound and |
| 7 | I mean that used to be a college in |
| 8 | Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect . |
| 9 | It is seven mile from Yarmouth and used to be a kind of pub or lodging-house for wherry-men when the wherry traffic was the only kind on the river . |
| 10 | He explains : ‘ I 'm a really big Liverpool fan and used to be a Kopite until a few years ago . |