Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to be it used to be kind of famous , the for they all , they all came here . |
| 2 | It used to be it used to be half dead that town |
| 3 | Yeah , th he used to be he used to be a watchmaker or clock er mender , watcher whatever you call it ! |
| 4 | Were the cattle in Rousay and Wyre and Egilsay were they used to that kind of thing ? |
| 5 | You are what used to be called a White Russian . ’ |
| 6 | Now I do n't think of us here and neither , certainly myself , I I would not claim to be any form of artist or expert but I think a lot of us can enjoy er getting our hands dabbling with paint erm paper mâché and other activities and in fact having that opportunity of ex enjoying those experiences that 's we ought to be able to offer to people in Cambridge and many peop children in schools they they do get opportunities but I think particularly amongst older people who 've never had that opportunity and I think you should be do so . |
| 7 | And then er when then as far as where is there used to be erm a fountain . |
| 8 | And then er then where Market is where Market is there used to be er er there 's a school there I do n't know I think it 's still there . |
| 9 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 10 | It 's what used to be called A Good Read . |
| 11 | He 's as well sit pushing papers around pretending to be busy but drawing the salary than being made redundant which is what ought to be happening . |
| 12 | Here by the Oberbaum bridge across the icy Spree is what used to be a quintessential Cold War Berlin scene . |
| 13 | Michael is what used to be known as a righteous dope fiend . |
| 14 | The second tendency is what used to be called Black nationalism but is now fragmented into multiple varieties , each with its own claim to ethnic particularity . |
| 15 | Democratic consumerism is what used to be called participation before the term consumerism became fashionable . |
| 16 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |