Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] be one " in BNC.
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| 1 | This used to be one of my lucky venues and I have some real nice memories of bagging sessions and wads of notes . |
| 2 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 3 | The adapter , Andy de la Tour , used to be one of the unfunniest comedians on the alternative cabaret circuit , a chap with a black hole where his sense of humour ought to be . |
| 4 | The Blackbuck used to be one of the most numerous of the grassland plains animals of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 5 | She used to be one of that Rajneesh lot , she always lives in communes , and Linda told me she was looking for somewhere . |
| 6 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 7 | The Martin Gropius building is an imposing brick block , which stands on what used to be one of the borders between East and West Berlin . |
| 8 | Balm used to be one of the most important herbs in the garden , as it is a strongly bee-orientated plant . |
| 9 | They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles . |
| 10 | Chemist mostly , erm erm chemist and er er not health stores , there 's one on Road , used to be one , not Road , one on Road now . |
| 11 | There used to be one woman one end and one woman the other , with something like something similar to the shape as a ladder . |
| 12 | Another night there used to be one , Old Bob , used to do bit of droving . |
| 13 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 14 | They still work I they 've got there used to be one man er employed to erm give these er boats water , fresh water drinking water |
| 15 | Well we had er , th there always used to be one man aboard the dumb hopper , wh they used to leave there for Monday morning and they used to p him , a man with him . |
| 16 | Scotswood Road and the Armstrong Vickers factory used to be one of the busiest places in Newcastle , ( it even earned a mention in one of the best known Geordie songs — hence the programme 's title ) with the factory employing most of the residents . |
| 17 | There 's a there 's erm let me see one , two , three , there used to be one , two , four meetings in Burrough Wood and two in Stetchworth . |
| 18 | ‘ Poor Evelina used to be one of the most fashionable women in Perugia , ’ Cinzia explained . |
| 19 | Coventry used to be one of the best teams in England … they 've won the cup twice … now they 're in the second division and they had a hard time on saturday … five penalty kicks saw them through … with three tries … none of which were that dazzling … it was Hereford who entertained … their last try was something special something to remember … |
| 20 | The back of there there used to be one or two people who used to have little outhouses where they used to sort of make things , and my grandfather up the Pleck , he was a good locksmith and he had his shop at the back of the house and he cou he could watch the Walsall races going on , which is now where the Road is , from his workshop before Street was put and any of those and he could stand in his workshop and watch the races . |
| 21 | I used to be one of the allocators over there as well |
| 22 | They 're used to be one , one of them what got killed used to , he used to ride his bike up and down the path here and sh , as start , he 'd get on his bike , she 'd run down to that bush down there and then get there before him and then , soon as he start to come back he was running back and beat him ! |
| 23 | Well he 's , he 's no , he ge that 's not a full time job like , but I mean , it used to be one , but |
| 24 | She used to be one of my best friends . |
| 25 | he used to be one of them in America . |
| 26 | The Sports Council will await Universiade GB 's concurrence with the deal before nominating their man , but it ought to be one of their members with business acumen — which means either David Simon of BP , who is most unlikely to have the time , Raymond Michel , formerly with a distillery , or Norman Jacobs , a partner in one of Britain 's largest firms of solicitors . |
| 27 | Ideally there ought to be one standard level of stiffness and severity for galloping courses like Cheltenham , Newbury or Sandown Park and another for fast tracks like the Mildmay . |
| 28 | But joy of joys , the New Moon in Scorpio on the 29th and some stunning planetary aspects in early November should spark off some kind of personal revival and no matter how many times you have been let down or left in the lurch in the past , emotionally this can and ought to be one of the happiest times you have ever known . |
| 29 | As can be seen from table 2 , practical exercises ought to be one of the best methods for library user education . |
| 30 | The grazing question ought to be one of firm public policy , stated from the top . |