Example sentences of "[conj] they used to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 2 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 3 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 4 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 5 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 6 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , RAF attitudes were changing : the disbandment of Fighter Command and the probable demise of the V Force made pilot seats in transport aircraft more attractive than they used to be . |
| 8 | The columnists on the op-ed pages are more bloody-minded than they used to be , but in its editorials the Times remains the voice of American public policy . |
| 9 | Now some have — and foreign investors , less credulous anyway , are more needed than they used to be . |
| 10 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 11 | Are people more or less ‘ in the know ’ about the external circumstances which affect them than they used to be ? |
| 12 | A&R people are sharper and more aggressive than they used to be . |
| 13 | ‘ Like a lot of things in the musical instrument industry , strings are much better value than they used to be . |
| 14 | Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be . |
| 15 | Boilers , especially the new low-water-content gas types , area a lot smaller than they used to be , and the latest gas-fired condensing boilers can run at efficiencies as high as 90% . |
| 16 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 17 | ‘ People are growing more realistic than they used to be ’ , Norster added , judging that the divisive ways of the recent past are being addressed . |
| 18 | The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be . |
| 19 | Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) . |
| 20 | But they were less inclined to tolerate this kind of thing than they used to be . |
| 21 | Taxes on companies ' profits are also now far less than they used to be ( down by over a third ) . |
| 22 | However , there is some evidence that women are more likely to engage in pre-marital sexual activity and that the negative sanctions on this are less than they used to be . |
| 23 | Families in modern Britain are generally more privatized and inward-looking than they used to be , with a greater interest in the home and the immediate family of wife or husband and children . |
| 24 | Courses which relate English literature to other subjects are perhaps commoner than they used to be … . |
| 25 | Members of the public are less deferential , better informed , and more litigious than they used to be . |
| 26 | Well , I find nowadays , people are much better at planning their retirement than they used to be , maybe because people are more aware of the fact th they wo n't necessarily be teaching till sixty or that sort of erm age . |
| 27 | It is certainly true to say , however , that because of the availability of contraception and abortion they are less oppressed by childbearing than they used to be . |
| 28 | I was already aware that Ian had recently lost an argument with a South Uist bend resulting in a change in vehicle and I can impart to all past and future travellers to the Uists who depend on Ian for transport that journeys are now much more sedate than they used to be . |
| 29 | Nowadays when his eyes light up for love of me , they are somehow clearer and brighter than they used to be ; the lighting up is the more flattering . |
| 30 | If people come to expect that interest rates will normally be higher than they used to be , then any given interest rate will seem lower relative to the ‘ normal ’ rate than it used to be . |