Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [modal v] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Even the much vaunted Mick Jones collaboration sounds like Mick Jones used to be in The Alarm not The Clash .
2 There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’
3 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 .
4 Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes .
5 Cos he used to Alan Bleasdale used to be Peter Reed 's teacher at school and the
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