Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it used [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 2 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 3 | I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to . |
| 4 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 5 | But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be . |
| 6 | now than it used to be , or is it just about the same ? |
| 7 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |
| 8 | It 's not as bad now as it used to be |
| 9 | You know , I mean , it 's not manned nearly as often as it used to be . |
| 10 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 11 | The organization and mobilization of the electorate in the United States to turn out to vote and to maximize the party 's chances of success is probably not carried out as well as it used to be , as is evidenced by the decline in turnout since the 1960s ( see table 26.2 ) . |
| 12 | It 's not as much fun being a GP nowadays as it used to be . |
| 13 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 14 | Er quite so today as it used to be . |
| 15 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 16 | The information will become known a bit faster than it used to be . |