Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 2 | He used to be 100% sure of what was needed … but not only the defensive problems … things so obvious as using Deane and Whelan when he should be using Deane/Wallace . |
| 3 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 4 | I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me . |
| 5 | Did n't you know he used to be feather weight champion of Scotland |
| 6 | Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then . |
| 7 | The deal was won by TVMM against strong competition from Scottish Televison , which used to be part of the same organisation as Grampian . |
| 8 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 9 | Sweden used to be part of the ‘ snake ’ ( predecessor of the European exchange-rate mechanism ) , but quit in 1977 , so that it could keep control of its own economic policy . |
| 10 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 11 | Mr Morraine told us it used to be part of the mainland . ’ |
| 12 | They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority . |
| 13 | Meco , which used to be part of the Dowty Group , makes mining equipment including pit props . |
| 14 | In that peat there used to be deer 's teeth , everything , parts of the jaw , horns , what we were dredging up , then we went further down to erm Downham Reach , that 's just before the Cattoes and we were dredging all green clay . |
| 15 | Nowadays I mean I know there never used to be apprenticeships for women but |
| 16 | And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas . |
| 17 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
| 18 | They used to be friends . ’ |
| 19 | We used to be friends . |
| 20 | It used to be Oxford Poly , yeah . |
| 21 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 22 | It used to be Beafra picking the flies off the trees . |
| 23 | Benjamin , impervious to the scene , leaned closer and sniffed at what used to be Waldegrave 's mouth . |
| 24 | There used to be loads down there ! |
| 25 | Grass , which used to be mown , is left to revert to meadow , and native trees planted between the nuclear reactors and the accelerators . |
| 26 | Chefs in any doubt as to the influence of the grand dames of the ovens should remember that the three- Michelin -star Georges Blanc in Vonnas used to be La Mère Blanc until the son took over from his maman . |
| 27 | During a recent election broadcast he featured as Sir Denis ‘ Foreman ’ — as in the foreman of a building site , rather than of Granada of which he used to be deputy chairman . |
| 28 | Locust beans they used to be animal feed I think . |
| 29 | The Cole and the Mersey joined it , used to be Mersea beach . |
| 30 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |