Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] they [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 2 | Powders are not what they used to be and today 's formulations wo n't clog , streak or look heavy , provided you apply them properly . |
| 3 | Still , things are not what they used to be . |
| 4 | It is one thing to assert that things are ‘ not what they used to be ’ and that this is part of the more ‘ general malaise ’ in society . |
| 5 | Things were not what they used to be , he lamented . |
| 6 | FINGS ai n't wot they used to be department : The recent ministerial reshuffle has stripped the rather snobby Home Office of three Old Etonians — Hurd , Renton and Hogg . |
| 7 | Hollywood Indians are n't what they used to be . |
| 8 | HARD men ai n't what they used to be ! |
| 9 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dracula , ‘ fangs ai n't what they used to be ! ’ |
| 11 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 12 | ‘ Fings ai n't what they used to be , ’ sang Max Bygraves . |
| 13 | Spies ai n't what they used to be |