Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most significantly , the persuasive interview techniques which used to be a feature of most interrogations have been abandoned partly because of the new requirement that there should be a verbatim contemporaneous record of every interview . |
| 32 | ‘ There used to be a stand in front of the old premises but that was before people worried about being riding home drunk , ’ says Tommy , the Cleveland CIU president . |
| 33 | Drama begins : " I used to be a wizard with great powers ; but my magic jewels have been stolen . |
| 34 | No , no Auntie Annie used to be a stickler on |
| 35 | Privatisation used to be a badge of honour worn with pride by these Ministers . |
| 36 | I used to cut across this it used to be a field on the way home from |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | There used to be a sign on the tower which read ’ Anyone committing suicide off the top of this tower does so at their own risk . ’ |
| 39 | The collieries used to there used to be a wall from the right to the chapel that was at even now in the same place . |
| 40 | The Emblem of the Holy Trinity ( lo/ 320 ) belonged to the Guild of the Stonecutters and there used to be a statue of a stonecutter above the door . |
| 41 | England used to be a country with red pillar boxes and policemen with red noses and decent law-abiding citizens you could eat your dinner off . |
| 42 | It used to be a case of whether United would win the title again before Doomsday . |
| 43 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 44 | There used to be a lot of work . |
| 45 | There used to be a lot of older houses and we used to all go in them . |
| 46 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 47 | There was a a lot of shops on and then as across the road there used to be a Road and there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 48 | And then where the ice rink is , there used to be a lot of houses and shops round there . |
| 49 | Well there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 50 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 51 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 52 | Cos there used to be a lot of houses under the shops along there as well . |
| 53 | There used to be a lot of nice shops as you went through Broadmarsh as well . |
| 54 | Oh there used to be a lot of s er entertainment coming round the streets there used to be er gentlemen as coming round singing . |
| 55 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 56 | Oh yes there used to be a lot of schooners . |
| 57 | Just build up of , erm I was talking to our Tom about nosebleeds , Alan was saying that his father used to be a lot like David and he used to get terrible headaches and it used to end up in a really bad nosebleed and he started giving blood regular and it stopped it . |
| 58 | ‘ I miss the comradeship and there used to be a lot among directors and with other clubs . |
| 59 | 19 year old Private Clifford Sampson used to be a painter before joining the army . |
| 60 | The classic work on plotting and graphs used to be a textbook by Carl Schmid ( 1954 ) , which is still worth consulting . |