Example sentences of "[noun pl] used [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it . |
| 2 | The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full . |
| 3 | The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full . |
| 4 | Demolition sites used to be wonderful sources of all manner of material . |
| 5 | Looking back on his earlier career , he said : ‘ Banks used to be terrible at monitoring their own costs and profitability . |
| 6 | 15.8.2 Arbitration appeals used to be commonplace |
| 7 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 8 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 9 | Also sending-offs used to be rare . |
| 10 | The monks used to be responsible for the education of the boys , teaching them the three Rs and the elements of Buddhism , the learning being almost entirely by rote , so that approaching a village one could often hear from a distance the shrill boyish voices as they repeated the lesson after their teacher . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Personnel used to be full of cells of specialists , in education , admin , communication , and so on . |
| 13 | Arbitration clauses in employment contracts used to be rare . |
| 14 | Challenges based on interpretation ( or " construction " ) arguments used to be effective : see an example at 7.2.4 , where the court investigated the technology of oil fields in order to interpret the expert procedure . |
| 15 | What diseases used to be common but now are hardly ever heard of ? |
| 16 | In areas where other treponematoses used to be endemic , as was yaws in the West Indies , the eradication of the non-venereal treponemal disease has been followed by an upsurge in the incidence of syphilis , perhaps because there is an ecological niche to be filled . |
| 17 | Yes yo your hands used to be purple an and the brass work on the dredger cos we had , we had a little bit of brass work they all used to turn green and to clean it , used to turn green . |
| 18 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 19 | Recession budgets used to be easy to predict . |