Example sentences of "[modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 61 | She used to be a check-out girl in [ name of supermarket ] . |
| 62 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 63 | While profit used to be viewed as a sufficient objective in itself , creating benefits for stakeholders is seen as the ultimate objective . |
| 64 | He used to be a seaman . |
| 65 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 66 | In a publishing deal , the average splits used to be 50:50 . |
| 67 | It used to be said that ‘ if you ca n't say what you want to say in three minutes , forget it ’ . |
| 68 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 69 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 70 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 71 | He used to be a keen sportsman in his younger days and rowed for England . |
| 72 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 73 | ‘ There used to be plenty — small perch , and pike , and eel — but they never seemed to grow to any size . ’ |
| 74 | The children were deeply ashamed : ‘ He used to be like that when Luke was here , Rose ; only it was worse . ’ |
| 75 | This used to be one of my lucky venues and I have some real nice memories of bagging sessions and wads of notes . |
| 76 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 77 | 1 used to be sad . |
| 78 | It is true there was a lot of housework but I used to be very lonely . |
| 79 | In Pakistan they used to be my constant companions . |
| 80 | There used to be a lot of work . |
| 81 | You have changed so much , you are a different person from what you used to be . ’ |
| 82 | I used to be proud . |
| 83 | 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 . ’ |
| 84 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 85 | Jack Dromey of Brent Trades Council told me : Willesden and Stonebridge ( in NW London ) used to be known in the 30s as Red Willesden and Red Stonebridge . |
| 86 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 87 | I used to wear a bra the same size as my mother 's , size 40 it used to be , but I just seemed to dry up completely . |
| 88 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 89 | Producing a coupe derivative , even in the limited numbers envisaged by Bentley with the Continental R , is not as easy as it used to be . |
| 90 | It 's so sad because she used to be such a lively and outgoing person . |