Example sentences of "used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | IT USED to be an easy decision , and still is for many racing fans — the first weekend in October is the time to visit Paris . |
| 32 | The gift-shop used to be a farmhouse , one of several owned by the skinflint farmer Boris who made his fortune by never paying bills . |
| 33 | ON FARM after farm around us the potato harvest is coming in — but the lifting of spuds is not what it used to be . |
| 34 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 35 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 36 | The party 's just begun for Democrats in New Jersey : New Jersey used to be the butt of TV comics . |
| 37 | The substantive work has consequently shifted from the party headquarters , where all decisions used to be made , to the conference hall and the corridors . |
| 38 | Llanelli 's 14-12 win was also a reminder of what used to be . |
| 39 | But the mainstream of calligraphy used to be a movement that firmly set modernism aside and as a result virtually vanished as a serious art school discipline after the 1960s . |
| 40 | The deal was won by TVMM against strong competition from Scottish Televison , which used to be part of the same organisation as Grampian . |
| 41 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 42 | Appropriate too , because the sudden greening of British politics , the rediscovery of the quality of life ( QOL , as it used to be known among Labour ministers on a previous incarnation ) introduces a catalytic ingredient into the brew known as Thatcherism . |
| 43 | His great strength is that he looks a small-'c' conservative , with that appealing moderation which used to be thought Tory . |
| 44 | 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 . ’ |
| 45 | ISC used to be run as a state-within-a-state by James Guerin , its founder , until his forced departure from the group in May . |
| 46 | THE WELSH used to be a hindrance rather than a help to the All Blacks but , by giving Grant Fox permission to practise his goalkicking at the Arms Park prior to tomorrow 's game with Cardiff , they might be contributing to their own downfall . |
| 47 | Or it used to be so . |
| 48 | This particular store in Clapham 's Abbeville Road used to be an ordinary branch of Thresher . |
| 49 | But it seems a shame not to challenge yourself because other people say you 're not as good as you used to be . |
| 50 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 51 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 52 | [ Name ] there used to be a architect and [ name ] has a degree in law . ’ |
| 53 | She used to be a check-out girl in [ name of supermarket ] . |
| 54 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 55 | While profit used to be viewed as a sufficient objective in itself , creating benefits for stakeholders is seen as the ultimate objective . |
| 56 | He used to be a seaman . |
| 57 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 58 | In a publishing deal , the average splits used to be 50:50 . |
| 59 | It used to be said that ‘ if you ca n't say what you want to say in three minutes , forget it ’ . |
| 60 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |