Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] it [modal v] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 2 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 3 | He had some stuff nicked , a ski jacket which cost me seventy five quid it were half , the rest it should of been a hundred and fifty |
| 4 | Her face was thinner , not altogether a good thing , and she 'd had her hair coloured too , a sort of pale version of the colour it used to be . |
| 5 | Hendon 's not the area it used to be . |
| 6 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
| 7 | If the world did n't contain those beautiful creatures , he 'd decided , it was n't half the world it ought to be . |
| 8 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 9 | His suggestion that United Motors should progressively wind up its European , South American and Asian regional headquarters and plan , direct and control world operations from its home base in Detroit , had been well-received by most of the top brass who liked the big bold approach of running the world the way it used to be … from Detroit . |
| 10 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 11 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's the way it used to be ’ , Murphy says , ‘ and we ought to start from that premise ’ . |
| 13 | I want to hope that I 'm being melodramatic and everything will settle back to the way it used to be , before all this ghastliness , but I doubt it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 15 | the way it used to be ? |
| 16 | ‘ That is the way it used to be . ’ |
| 17 | With the advent of softer leathers and fabric boots breaking in your boots is not the problem it used to be . |
| 18 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 19 | I think that whenever there 's a programme it ought to be agreed above and below er a hierarchy . |
| 20 | If he 's going to make a speech it ought to be before too much champagne goes to too many heads . ’ |