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Example sentences of "[conj] it used [prep] [be] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’
2	Or it used to be so .
3	Or it used to be the George .
4	Or it used to be until I got that letter .
5	The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra .
6	I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it .
7	‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything .
8	THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th .
9	But er it 's not the road that that that it used to be .
10	So I just , it used to be , you see that it used to be W G and Sons .
11	‘ It is n't the stigma that it used to be and — ’
12	A village which started looking into its own history has discovered that it used to be somewhere else .
13	THOUGH much smaller in numbers that it used to be , Courtaulds Italia has managed to weld together a team which blends experience with freshness .
14	There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be .
15	Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be .
16	The information will become known a bit faster than it used to be .
17	I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems .
18	As ever , the men look more impressive than the women , but the difference is less marked than it used to be .
19	Other establishments followed their example , with the result that Jerusalem is a less cheerless city than it used to be .
20	It also has to be recognised that the general educational standard of aspiring architects is much lower than it used to be .
21	Chancroid is generally less common than it used to be , and is very rarely seen in Northern Europe , although it still poses problems in Asia and parts of Africa .
22	But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be .
23	But Chris Smith sums up the make-or-break situation of the market in turmoil : ‘ The low end of the market is thinner than it used to be , and the other buyers do n't want to mess around with scrapyards . ’
24	Each of these three events involved the legal process or changes in the law , and as such inevitably make the censorship issue in libraries less localized than it used to be even after the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 .
25	Although there is much social and occupational mobility , and our choice of marriage partner is wider than it used to be , we are obviously most likely to meet and continue acquaintance with people used to similar standards of living , values and expectations .
26	The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be .
27	Because in recent years hypnosis has tended to leave behind its mystical and Svengali-related image — and also because complementary medicine in general is far more widely accepted than it used to be — many people are less worried about the whole concept than before .
28	I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be .
29	The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be .
30	The political limitations of the approach , in particular its inability to deal with differences between women , have made it less powerful than it used to be .