Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ought to be champagne . ’ |
| 2 | Lots of people want it to , er suggest that it ought to be holiday but |
| 3 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 4 | Mr Morraine told us it used to be part of the mainland . ’ |
| 5 | It used to be airport north at that time , small house on the edge of the Western side is n't it ? |
| 6 | It used to be it used to be kind of famous , the for they all , they all came here . |
| 7 | Yeah , mine , mine used to be something like quarter to twelve , did n't it , quarter to twelve till three , and then they decided to change round , it used to be quarter to twelve to six , did n't it ? |
| 8 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 9 | It used to be midnight . |
| 10 | Well it used to , it used to be midnight . |
| 11 | It used to be dinner for us at night , you see , cos we did n't have time for stopping like at lunchtime . |
| 12 | ‘ But in the old Engineering days , it used to be beer . ’ |
| 13 | Well it used to be slang . |
| 14 | It used to be tea , but now she stands up . |
| 15 | stick tea bag in it now , cos I mean it used to be tea did n't it , all at one time ? |
| 16 | when it used to be summer Saturdays and Sundays they were excursions , they were n't service trains . |
| 17 | and it used to be Christmas Islands where , where literally they , they did the first |
| 18 | It used to be murder talking about it . |