Example sentences of "because it [modal v] 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 | For a really weird effect , it could be combined with an actual camera movement in the opposite direction ( tracking in and tracking out , so called because it used to be done on tracks like tramlines rather than free wheels ) . |
| 3 | And the surround used to have nice fancy work round you know to make it so it would n't stand on the table cos me mother bought one of those because it used to be a bit dangerous on the table if you knocked it you see and |
| 4 | Peavey 's newest plant looks like a supermarket , that 's because it used to be a supermarket . |
| 5 | Peavey 's newest plant looks like a supermarket , that 's because it used to be a supermarket . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's a good castrating because it used to be a bit of a |
| 8 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |