Example sentences of "it used [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 32 | It used to be a hotel . |
| 33 | It used to be said — in the face of evidence of a growing and changing repertory of enormous size — that Karajan was interested in technology because after so many years in the business he had exhausted his interest in the music itself . |
| 34 | Second , he continued , life was indeed bad — but it used to be much worse . |
| 35 | It used to be called Am Graben which is German for ‘ the moat ’ because that was where the medieval city walls ran . |
| 36 | As ever , the men look more impressive than the women , but the difference is less marked than it used to be . |
| 37 | But now nothing on the political-economic front is as clear-cut as it used to be . |
| 38 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 39 | But they said the number was only a fraction of what it used to be . |
| 40 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 41 | ‘ It 's not as black and white as it used to be . |
| 42 | It might seem churlish to ask for flavour as well as the chance to save the planet , but it used to be there before the planet needed saving . |
| 43 | It used to be called the ‘ self-build movement ’ , and the wearing of beards and open-toed sandals was close to compulsory . |
| 44 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 45 | Other establishments followed their example , with the result that Jerusalem is a less cheerless city than it used to be . |
| 46 | Mr Morraine told us it used to be part of the mainland . ’ |
| 47 | I 'm certainly forced to admit I 've noticed it in myself — my thinking has n't been nearly as controlled as it used to be . |
| 48 | It used to be in all the fields then , and he used to take all the kids gathering coltsfoot . |
| 49 | Oh yes , it used to be wonderful to go there … |
| 50 | It also has to be recognised that the general educational standard of aspiring architects is much lower than it used to be . |
| 51 | It used to be thought that as the practice of copying became more common the Romans devised an instrument similar to the modern pointing machine for making exact reproductions . |
| 52 | Chancroid is generally less common than it used to be , and is very rarely seen in Northern Europe , although it still poses problems in Asia and parts of Africa . |
| 53 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 54 | The law is very unclear on what this time limit is — it used to be six years , but some would hold that there is now no limit to the liability . |
| 55 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 56 | Although Good Friday is not the general holiday it used to be , it remains the most emotive day of the Christian calendar , and is celebrated by walks of witness and solemn services . |
| 57 | It is a large breed and , known as the Big Red , it used to be the biggest breed in Britain . |
| 58 | Traditionally Dexters were bred by mating Kerry cows to Dexter bulls , and it used to be known as the Dexter-Kerry . |
| 59 | It used to be considered a deformity in other breeds and led to automatic culling , but in several continental breeds it is now selected for , although it can lead to problems in calving and perhaps fertility . |
| 60 | It originated from the crossing of Shorthorns with the local Mancelle from 1830 and it used to be known as the Durham-Mancelle . |