Example sentences of "[modal v] to [be] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both countries have managed to become the most visibly successful economies in what used to be called their respective ‘ blocs ’ . |
| 2 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 3 | So that is a Jacquard , and that 's an electronic Jacquard , means you can do all sorts of different patterns now , where it used to be limited it 's unlimited now . |
| 4 | It used to be said there are a lot of very prosperous , very prosperous farmers round in Melton Mowbray . |
| 5 | For most of the past two years , after the first cracks in the ice were heard , Eastern Europe 's future used to be seen something like this . |
| 6 | C. I used to be told I was good at English . |
| 7 | If she knew a thing ought to be done she would really push hard . " |
| 8 | Yet the importance attached to this scheme of distributive justice by advocates of choice theory encourages them to ignore the contradiction which we noticed above between the liberal ideal of individual autonomy and the moral paternalism of the principle that promises ought to be kept which lies at the heart of their theory of contract . |
| 9 | Apart from this , Elstir 's insistence on painting what his senses register , not what his mind believes , is connected with two features in À la recherche which ought to be mentioned I think however briefly . |