Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 2 | w er only sailing boats and they used to be anchored here years ago , down on the beach there . |
| 3 | The risk , they argued , was judging South Africa 's rugby resources as they used to be , not what they might become . |
| 4 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |
| 5 | Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be . |
| 6 | It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life . |
| 7 | There used to be some nice serials for They used to be thrilling you know , er I can remember I wish they 'd show them now They used to be what we used to call , The voice on the wire and then there was another serial called , Peggo the Ring . |