Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There used to be 200 , but since the food stopped coming … a lot of women came mainly for the donations . |
| 2 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 3 | It used to be seventy something . |
| 4 | In a publishing deal , the average splits used to be 50:50 . |
| 5 | There used to be five men go on a boat . |
| 6 | The law is very unclear on what this time limit is — it used to be six years , but some would hold that there is now no limit to the liability . |
| 7 | It used to be six months did n't it , and now it 's gone up |
| 8 | What are the report , what , what 's in clauses what used to be thirty seven and thirty eight ? |
| 9 | We could hardly get inside for rubbish and could n't see the floor , it was all dirt , and there used to be two or three benches on which we had to sit down ; then old Morgan would read the Bible to us and pray , we had to kneel down — oh what a dry lesson . |
| 10 | There used to be two varieties known as the Maroilles and Picardy in France . |
| 11 | There used to be two small hamlets just outside but part of the village , known as Mill Cottages and Pry Cottages . |
| 12 | There used to be two shelves in the oven . |
| 13 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 14 | There us used to be two sticks . |
| 15 | There used to be two hundred monks here . ’ |
| 16 | Exactly oh yes that was shared between the men what erm , there used to be two men so they 'd get er share the three pound between them or five pound whatever it was . |
| 17 | ‘ Three main meals every week used to be two pieces of toast each in a bowl , with milk and sugar . ’ |
| 18 | In the UK there used to be two taxes that tax wealth per se rather than the income that is derived from wealth . |
| 19 | There was used t the work in the old days , there was used to be two underground and two in the mill , they used to be partners . |
| 20 | We used to , twenty eight there used to be two lavatories , madam and gents , you know . |
| 21 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 22 | There used to be two but there 's four now . |
| 23 | Used to be two drawers empty , now it 's full of tapes and I can see they take over . |
| 24 | Well the big there 's gon na be big problems really because erm there used to be two of us that were F grades , yeah ? |
| 25 | Yes , it used to be two and a half times the wage and in the long run rather than mess about taking the house off them |
| 26 | This used to be one of my lucky venues and I have some real nice memories of bagging sessions and wads of notes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Blackbuck used to be one of the most numerous of the grassland plains animals of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 30 | She used to be one of that Rajneesh lot , she always lives in communes , and Linda told me she was looking for somewhere . |