Example sentences of "it used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not like it used to be . |
| 2 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 3 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ON FARM after farm around us the potato harvest is coming in — but the lifting of spuds is not what it used to be . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Or it used to be so . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | It used to be said that ‘ if you ca n't say what you want to say in three minutes , forget it ’ . |
| 11 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 12 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 13 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 14 | I used to wear a bra the same size as my mother 's , size 40 it used to be , but I just seemed to dry up completely . |
| 15 | Producing a coupe derivative , even in the limited numbers envisaged by Bentley with the Continental R , is not as easy as it used to be . |
| 16 | It used to be in the blue mug , but Marie took that . |
| 17 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 18 | It used to be the normal practice to adapt buildings for different purposes over their lives . |
| 19 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 20 | It used to be possible to complete three circuits of the Barkhor before being detained . |
| 21 | On the ABCA path , it used to be relatively easy to agree common operational requirements , and to collaborate in research and development . |
| 22 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 23 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 24 | The information will become known a bit faster than it used to be . |
| 25 | IT USED to be the east Prussian city of Königsberg , where the philosopher Immanuel Kant worked and died . |
| 26 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 27 | His suggestion that United Motors should progressively wind up its European , South American and Asian regional headquarters and plan , direct and control world operations from its home base in Detroit , had been well-received by most of the top brass who liked the big bold approach of running the world the way it used to be … from Detroit . |
| 28 | ‘ Nostalgia ai n't what it used to be , ’ interjected Andrew , quoting the latest college graffiti . |
| 29 | ‘ It used to be Saturday nights , and that was all , bar taking the laundry , an hour Wednesdays . |
| 30 | ‘ IT USED TO BE an honour to have the local MP to dine , ’ a big Yorkshire landowner told me . |