Example sentences of "used [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | The universal feeling used to be that such books belonged in the libraries they came from . |
| 3 | It used to be that if you wished something to look white on television you had to paint it yellow . |
| 4 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 5 | It used to be that causing trouble for the leadership was the surest way to a big NEC vote . |
| 6 | As Representative Mo Udall has colourfully put it , ‘ It used to be that when you met a chairman in the hall you bowed low and said , hello Mr Chairman ; now when you meet a chairman in the hall he bows low . ’ |
| 7 | The argument for preordination used to be that God was omnipotent and outside time , so God would know What was going to happen . |
| 8 | And it 's changed they out-winter the beasts there now , it used to be that the beasts was in all the time in Winter . |
| 9 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 10 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |