Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | The universal feeling used to be that such books belonged in the libraries they came from . |
| 4 | It used to be that if you wished something to look white on television you had to paint it yellow . |
| 5 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 6 | It used to be that causing trouble for the leadership was the surest way to a big NEC vote . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The argument for preordination used to be that God was omnipotent and outside time , so God would know What was going to happen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Alain Prost is not as quick as he used to be but was smarter , and Nigel Mansell is not the smoothest driver around but he has a lot of ‘ mechanical talent ’ . |
| 13 | He 's not the player he used to be but I suppose you could say the same about me . ’ |
| 14 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 15 | There used to be but there is no |
| 16 | It used to be but I think it 's an old |
| 17 | The question for the court used to be whether the applicant had shown prima facie evidence , or a probability , that his legal rights were being infringed . |
| 18 | And we 've got you know that is actually a lot lower than it used to be because we they actually caught us charging them three hundred and fifty quid for a bearing that we 're now charging them two hundred and fifty quid for . |
| 19 | Things we make in the UK are much more readily exportable than they used to be because of this . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll meet you where the gates used to be if that 's all right with you . ’ |
| 21 | How cross you used to be if a goose 's feather 's were n't drawn straight ! ’ , |
| 22 | Ah yes , but now that 's very interesting because that 's not the same as was the old regulation with the H N D recognition with Napier , and it used to be as I understood it that you had to actually be in membership and leave a period of time between doing the certificate and the diploma . |
| 23 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 24 | ‘ If only the hunting now was like it used to be when we were their age , ’ said Kalchu , nodding towards the twins . |
| 25 | Except that their role is more obscure to the public eye , the authorities ' influence over short-term interest rates is not very different from what it used to be when they announced an MLR each week and expected institutions to comply . |
| 26 | Used to be when a carpenter put up a door he put up a door . |
| 27 | Just up there on your left it used to be when I was a young lad , with their little forecourt with a little office in the middle two petrol pumps , I always remember that |
| 28 | and I 'm not convinced , I am not convinced that they , that they are anywhere near the standard they used to be when they were last in Europe a few seasons ago |
| 29 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 30 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |