Example sentences of "used [prep] [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to be possible to skate over the frozen water from Ulvik right out to the Hardanger Fjord , but now the hydro-electric station discharges gallons of hot water into the fjord , and it no longer freezes in winter . |
| 2 | It used to be possible to complete three circuits of the Barkhor before being detained . |
| 3 | It used to be possible to obtain second-hand telescopes at low cost , but by now a really good , cheap second-hand telescope is about as common as a great auk . |
| 4 | Recession budgets used to be easy to predict . |
| 5 | Diesel economics used to be easy to calculate . |
| 6 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 7 | Yeah used to be terrible did n't it ? |
| 8 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 9 | Works done in Nice between 1917 and 1932 used to be hard to sell but have now been upgraded . |
| 10 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 11 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 12 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 13 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 14 | We never used to be able to go and play anywhere take this one with you . |
| 15 | I mean you used to be able to go ah ! |
| 16 | I used to be able to go to bed early and go to sleep . |
| 17 | Apparently his grandmothers Budgie used to be able to say ‘ Top of the morning to you ! … |
| 18 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 19 | One used to be able to listen to light classical music on Radio 2 on a Sunday morning , but that has disappeared , and Radio 4 's topsy-turvy ‘ streamlining ’ has wrecked the listening habits of years . |
| 20 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 21 | Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer . |
| 22 | ‘ I used to be able to do everything my friends did , ’ she says . |
| 23 | I used to be able to do this and come out chuckling . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do . |
| 25 | I used to be able to do it , I forgot how do my fingers go now . |
| 26 | He used to be able to do it did n't he , old tap tap ? |
| 27 | No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it . |
| 28 | I used to be able to do that . |
| 29 | I , I really jiggered myself this morning and I was only out about half an hour , you know , and I used to be able to do a full day ! |
| 30 | Before the clampdown , I used to be able to score round here , there was that many places that you can score really . |