Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal was won by TVMM against strong competition from Scottish Televison , which used to be part of the same organisation as Grampian . |
| 2 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 3 | Sweden used to be part of the ‘ snake ’ ( predecessor of the European exchange-rate mechanism ) , but quit in 1977 , so that it could keep control of its own economic policy . |
| 4 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 5 | Mr Morraine told us it used to be part of the mainland . ’ |
| 6 | Meco , which used to be part of the Dowty Group , makes mining equipment including pit props . |
| 7 | Jim Lowe , Fiona 's father , used to be chairman of the club and is also on the Nordic committee of the Scottish National Ski Council . |
| 8 | When I was young , accountants used to be figures of fun . |
| 9 | It used to be it used to be kind of famous , the for they all , they all came here . |
| 10 | British bikes used to be kings of the road . |
| 11 | DE VALERA : A man who used to be President Of Ireland before he turned into Jimmy Stewart . |
| 12 | And there used to be sort of a mush made from haricot beans too that people said were baked beans and they were n't it was just sort of white mushy erm white haricot beans with a sort of red colouring poured over the top . |
| 13 | I was one of those people who used to be sort of potty about someone and then go off them within two weeks . |
| 14 | We used to be sort of er almost like a erm a clothes line . |
| 15 | And then these other men they used to be sort of a freelance , working a day here and a week there . |
| 16 | Oh yes , there ha , I mean there are economies of scale in agriculture , it 's just that they 're , the scope of them er , is less than er the scope in manufacturing so I mean , farms used to be a lot smaller and throughout this century , this last century we 've witnessed an increase in farm size alright , but the I think the optimal , the optimal farm size is erm , I think it 's about three hundred hectares okay , er erm , with three hundred hectares you 'll produce a , a pretty squit proportion of erm total output but farms used to be sort of one , two , three , ten hectares in size as we 've gone through the farms have amalgamated and increased in size and that 's primarily due to economies of scale , but there are a great deal of economies to be reached , once you 've got a combine harvester , once you 've got big machinery alright . |
| 17 | always used to be sort of double depth down but they 're not any longer . |
| 18 | What February used to be sort of reckoned for rain did n't it ? |
| 19 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 20 | It will not be something that ought to be part of our very definition . |
| 21 | And such a sentence need n't be confined to the characters of the Bible ; words like those ought to be part of the way that you and I speak about our lives . |
| 22 | There ought to be consideration of the animal 's perspective when formulating laws ; almost all the laws are to protect a certain kind of human interest . |
| 23 | And for so long as the honours system continues in operation , there ought to be recognition of citizenship as a criterion . |
| 24 | Social work help should be provided on a similar basis , and there ought to be continuity of care after discharge . |
| 25 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |