Example sentences of "it [modal v] to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ought to be flamboyantly seductive . |
| 2 | It used to be best , it used to be best bloody ale , were n't it ? |
| 3 | It used to be it used to be half dead that town |
| 4 | ‘ It used to be really good for scarce reedbed species but it is so dry now its basic birds are tawny owl and whitethroat and there has got to be something wrong with that . |
| 5 | did n't it used to be really popular , I mean everything you bought was |
| 6 | ‘ It used to be really anarchic , but then all sorts of casuals started wearing in and yang on their hooded tops because it was trendy . ’ |
| 7 | But of course it was lovely with er , er they used to trim it up Christmas time you know and it used to be so lovely . |
| 8 | It used to be so secretive . |
| 9 | ‘ It used to be virtually impossible to find a place to go . |
| 10 | yeah but it can , it , it used to be absolutely horrendous at the Tyne Tees valley , well the , you were there for that were n't you ? |
| 11 | On the ABCA path , it used to be relatively easy to agree common operational requirements , and to collaborate in research and development . |
| 12 | It used to be very covert but now we are coming out from behind the bushes . ’ |
| 13 | I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition . |
| 14 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 15 | I was at the Embassy then , and it used to be very busy . |
| 16 | Cos when I , I used to take Tim , it used to be very safe then , the only danger we seemed to be in in those days was catching cold . |
| 17 | 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 . |