Example sentences of "[adj] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , of course , I go along with the perception that being 40 these days is like 30 used to be . |
| 2 | This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity . |
| 3 | This used to be a perception shared with Protestants . |
| 4 | This used to be one of my lucky venues and I have some real nice memories of bagging sessions and wads of notes . |
| 5 | ‘ This used to be a recreation room . |
| 6 | This used to be called a tight fiscal policy . |
| 7 | ‘ What does it mean here , where it says that this used to be a ‘ crubeen shop ’ ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ This used to be a lord 's fishing lodge , ’ Mrs Knelle told me , with a slight laugh . |
| 9 | This used to be a bubbling mill stream |
| 10 | There was an added difficulty that the three of then , would break into convulsions of laughter , verging on hysterics , with Hopper somewhere off camera rolling around in the bushes and , according to Nicholson , ‘ totally freaked out ’ while Jack was forcing himself to be relatively straight , do his serious acting and hold the whole thing together : ‘ This used to be a helluva good country … ’ |
| 11 | Standard disc drive : This used to be the easiest data story to copy . |
| 12 | This used to be the Hotel Santa Clara but is now used by telephone engineers . |
| 13 | ‘ THIS USED to be a hell of a country , ’ muses drop-out Jack Nicholson , ‘ what the hell happened to it ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This used to be a happy place , ’ moaned the animals , ‘ until that beast came along . ’ |
| 15 | This used to be a hell of a country , before we started letting red slits like you run loose in the streets frightening the children with their hammers and sickles . ’ |
| 16 | The first single from the new LP is scheduled for release in late September , and follows Madonna 's recent hit 45 ‘ This Used To Be My Playground ’ , which will not feature on the LP . |
| 17 | This used to be a wonderful scree running down to Mosedale , which was like gliding down an escalator . |
| 18 | This used to be a problem for many people as a result of the Earnings Rule . |
| 19 | Yes well the rest is all modern cos this used to be a church but then it was turned into a museum , it 's now a museum . |
| 20 | Indeed , this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes : how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity ? |
| 21 | But this used to be a bicycle shop , the first world war . |
| 22 | While this used to be common practice , it is now widely considered sexist : such usage represents the masculine as the norm , and so marginalises women . |
| 23 | This used to be the system operated in the UK when banks had to set their interest rates in line with Bank rate . |
| 24 | Fake clothing like this used to be associated with dodgy del boy types who work out of suitcases at street markets . |
| 25 | For Craig Cook , a reformed car thief , this used to be a way of life . |
| 26 | This used to be a regular sight in the village of Bloxham , near Banbury . |
| 27 | This used to be called services performance day , but we realised most of our customers were . |
| 28 | And look , this used to be |
| 29 | This erm this used to be a distribution sort of |
| 30 | FRIENDSHIP BUREAUX These used to be called marriage bureaux . |