Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An awful lot of things are changing which is foreign to Anfield because it used to be a very friendly club . ’ |
| 2 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 3 | This is Amazonia as it used to be , before the coming of the settlers and the seekers after gold . |
| 4 | This letter produced one extra volunteer , and several phone calls to me , all of which were in favour of the project , and several from older people who recalled Donkey Lane as it used to be . |
| 5 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 6 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 7 | But for some villagers who the remember the Lambourn as it used to be , all that matters is that it flows once again . |
| 8 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 9 | that 's the only link with Caldmore as it used to be and Caldmore as it is now |
| 10 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |