Example sentences of "[noun sg] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 2 | The pre-eminent location for this type of holding used to be Panama , but its political tribulations have damaged confidence . |
| 3 | It therefore adjoins Ursa Major , and in ancient times Thuban or Alpha Draconis used to be the north polar star . |
| 4 | When I stayed overnight at my nan 's , which I often did , I actually slept in a room next to where the old monastery used to be . |
| 5 | Staxigoe used to be far more important than Wick ; a busy fishing port , where Scandinavian timber was imported and the small harbour bustled with boats long before Wick gained pre-eminence as the most notable herring fishing station in Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer . |
| 7 | There were bats where the roof used to be before . |
| 8 | For most of the past two years , after the first cracks in the ice were heard , Eastern Europe 's future used to be seen something like this . |
| 9 | Winter snow used to be stored here from nearby drifts and provided a supply of caked ice throughout the following summer for the wealthy inhabitants and the hotels in Funchal . |
| 10 | ‘ This horse used to be so difficult , ’ he stated , ‘ and John 's worked wonders with him . ’ |
| 11 | Jay had no inclination to go through the who are you , what do you do , oh really , gosh my brother-in-law used to be in the same field . |
| 12 | Balbinder used to be ‘ wild ’ , but he had learned to share and to take part in group work , despite still being a very lively child . |
| 13 | Kenneth Stanley from Telford could n't believe his eyes when he saw a gaping hole where his pond used to be . |
| 14 | Winter injection used to be popular , until experts found that wet soil often did n't absorb the slurry properly and increased the danger of run-off . |
| 15 | The scientists and philosophers — and I think it 's significant that scientific study used to be called natural philosophy — they think in a big way , about yesterday and tomorrow , about the whole great sweep of mankind in the world . |
| 16 | Half-way down these walls , one of which backed onto the bathroom , slightly below waist-height there was a wide slate slab on which the pig used to be salted to preserve it through the winter . |
| 17 | Kingswood used to be in Gloucestershire before the last boundary changes in 1974 . |
| 18 | Did , did the racecourse used to be busy ? |
| 19 | The one possible exception to this general rule used to be the jurisdiction of the court to quash a decision taken within the jurisdiction of the decision taker where an error of law appeared on the face of the record : Rex v. Northumberland Compensation Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Shaw [ 1952 ] 1 K.B . |
| 20 | The concerns of administration used to be the maintenance of law and regulation , the sustaining of working relationships with voluntary organizations and denominational bodies and the planning and maintenance of programmes across a range of responsibilities . |
| 21 | The contest used to be a smaller affair , held in the evening at a smart hotel . |
| 22 | The colour range used to be wide , as in other Scottish cattle , including red-and-white , solid red , dun , dun-and-white , yellow , solid black , blue , grey , grey-and-white , brown-and-white , brindle , white with blue or black on the neck , black riggit ( finchback ) , brockle-faced and even belted . |
| 23 | They work with children who have behavioural and/or learning problems in school , administering tests ( traditional IQ testing used to be a central part of the job , but it is becoming less important ) and designing remedial work in conjunction with teachers . |
| 24 | Their influence used to be great . |
| 25 | In Italy tax-collection used to be a commercial business . |
| 26 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 27 | CHRISTMAS Day in the Workhouse used to be an Edwardian party-piece . |
| 28 | The substantial Royal Nederland former subsidiary used to be audited as part of Royal International , the holding company . |
| 29 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 30 | The commonest example of time-lapse stop-motion used to be in biology films , like the old Rank Secrets of Nature by Mary Field or innumerable educational films for schools from companies like Encyclopaedia Britannica Films . |