Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Used to be great friends , before Charles walked out . |
| 32 | There used to be five men go on a boat . |
| 33 | Turkey used to be higher , but Britain has now beaten it . |
| 34 | maybe a bit younger the fashion used to be winkle-picker shoes . |
| 35 | The law is very unclear on what this time limit is — it used to be six years , but some would hold that there is now no limit to the liability . |
| 36 | It used to be six months did n't it , and now it 's gone up |
| 37 | It used to be possible to complete three circuits of the Barkhor before being detained . |
| 38 | It used to be possible to skate over the frozen water from Ulvik right out to the Hardanger Fjord , but now the hydro-electric station discharges gallons of hot water into the fjord , and it no longer freezes in winter . |
| 39 | It used to be possible to obtain second-hand telescopes at low cost , but by now a really good , cheap second-hand telescope is about as common as a great auk . |
| 40 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 41 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
| 42 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 43 | What are the report , what , what 's in clauses what used to be thirty seven and thirty eight ? |
| 44 | In the past , when we knew less than we do now , our advice used to be extra cautious . |
| 45 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 46 | Although at sixty he was becoming a little stooped , and his hair and beard that used to be jet-black were turning to silver , the force of his personality was undeniable . |
| 47 | In areas where other treponematoses used to be endemic , as was yaws in the West Indies , the eradication of the non-venereal treponemal disease has been followed by an upsurge in the incidence of syphilis , perhaps because there is an ecological niche to be filled . |
| 48 | This disease occurs in tropical climes and used to be endemic in parts of Africa , South America , the Indian sub-continent , Indonesia , Australia , and the West Indies . |
| 49 | 1 used to be sad . |
| 50 | ‘ I used to be sad and pathetic , but I 'm not so miserable any more . |
| 51 | They used to be bloody thirty odd quid , forty odd quid . |
| 52 | ‘ It used to be salted char that was popular — I 'm told that Henry VIII ordered it in barrelfuls — and then there were char pies — some of them three or four stone in weight : now they seem to want it potted in little jars . |
| 53 | they used to be cheap , there was a lot of one pound seventy , they 're only a little slab , drive me boring doing the little ones , so you might as well get two of the big ones once you 've done |
| 54 | And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses . |
| 55 | It 's not long ago , Aunt Tossie thought ( or said to Gigi — who was still eking out her parrot 's longevity ) that we used to be rich , dear bird . |
| 56 | Well though some of it was coming from Argentine , that used to be boneless Argentine beef . |
| 57 | We could hardly get inside for rubbish and could n't see the floor , it was all dirt , and there used to be two or three benches on which we had to sit down ; then old Morgan would read the Bible to us and pray , we had to kneel down — oh what a dry lesson . |
| 58 | There used to be two varieties known as the Maroilles and Picardy in France . |
| 59 | There used to be two small hamlets just outside but part of the village , known as Mill Cottages and Pry Cottages . |
| 60 | There used to be two shelves in the oven . |