Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it more , or less distinct from other subjects than it used to be ? ) produced some interesting answers : |
| 2 | ‘ An awful lot of things are changing which is foreign to Anfield because it used to be a very friendly club . ’ |
| 3 | Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY |
| 4 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 5 | The composer does not specify when this change is to be made ; it is entirely the player 's affair , but it does mean that it is safer to write high notes than it used to be . |
| 6 | Its reason for treating consensual anal intercourse separately is stated thus : ‘ This distinctive conduct has such potentialities of physical and psychological damage that it ought to be distinguished from lesser forms of sexual conduct . ’ |
| 7 | THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th . |
| 8 | ‘ As a result it is better protected against cold winds than it used to be . ’ |
| 9 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 10 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 11 | This is Amazonia as it used to be , before the coming of the settlers and the seekers after gold . |
| 12 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 13 | Cup board cos it used to be just a just a shelf just a board with some hooks on it hang your cups on it . |
| 14 | It seems much more exciting these days than it used to be . |
| 15 | This letter produced one extra volunteer , and several phone calls to me , all of which were in favour of the project , and several from older people who recalled Donkey Lane as it used to be . |
| 16 | I will be arguing in this address that we have been as guilty as many other sections of our community in treating it too lightly , or in putting it lower down in our order of priorities than it ought to be ; but it has never been entirely absent from Christian thought or theology . |
| 17 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 18 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 19 | By my bed there 's a wall and it used to be covered in orange- flowered wallpaper . |
| 20 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 21 | The gates are usually locked at night and it used to be fairly standard practice that people going in and out had to identify themselves . |
| 22 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing 's so much fun as it used to be , ’ said Camille , for no apparent reason . |
| 24 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 25 | I still got this little housewife feeling that it ought to be ready when you come in the door you know . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only then will our worship become the sweet fragrance to God that it ought to be . |
| 28 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 29 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
| 30 | The whole area was much dryer than it used to be , and Edward suspected that something had interfered with the water table ; there had been nesting moorhens at one time — now only the occasional toad was left . |