Example sentences of "[subord] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also means that a care assistant is likely to see frailer residents than used to be the case . |
| 2 | With so much more of the limelight concentrated on the Test team than used to be the case , pen sketches of every member of the county cricket circuit , along with actual photographs in each case , are a welcome addition . |
| 3 | Although the Wealden pattern suggests a density of population and activity far greater than used to be thought , it was the great coastal and scarpland estates that had the most highly organised agriculture . |
| 4 | It is often considered that there is much greater sexual tolerance than used to be the case and the public response to homosexuality and lesbianism is sometimes cited as evidence for this . |
| 5 | ‘ Implicitly , if not explicitly , the doctoral thesis has come to be thought of in some countries and institutions as simply the demonstration that a certain amount of research methodology has been transmitted and received , with much less emphasis than used to be the case upon the nature and significance of the topic explored . ’ |
| 6 | The new rules as to exchange of witness statements ( CCR Order 20 , r 12A , SCR Order 38 , r 2A ) will require some witnesses to be seen much earlier than used to be the practice . |
| 7 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 8 | Dere 's an old Protestant graveyard , overgrown now , you understand , up dere , by de old crossroads , as used to be dere . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As regards morality , ’ he thought , ‘ the old English feeling for ‘ sport ’ ’ and ‘ fair play ’ ’ has receded to thinly-populated or remote districts where athletes can not be exploited for money' , prophesying that ‘ soon the only football played , as used to be the case , for the love of the game , will be seen among University men ’ . |
| 10 | The Home Office directs the police , rather than ( as used to be the case before the First World War ) local magistrates , many of whom were owners of local industries , with a vested interest in the breaking of strikes . |