Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 2 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 3 | I think that whenever there 's a programme it ought to be agreed above and below er a hierarchy . |
| 4 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 5 | Forgetting the past is obviously not the positive action it ought to be if it results in waves of violence towards anyone perceived as not sufficiently ‘ German ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 7 | Beafra it used to be in n it ? |
| 8 | There is a standard lie for each club , but for a short person it ought to be one or two degrees flatter . |
| 9 | Her face was thinner , not altogether a good thing , and she 'd had her hair coloured too , a sort of pale version of the colour it used to be . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
| 12 | Hendon 's not the area it used to be . |
| 13 | All over the ground floor it used to be beautiful red tiles , spotless . |
| 14 | We do n't yet know whether the Coal Board 's action is illegal but sure as hell it ought to be . |
| 15 | If the world did n't contain those beautiful creatures , he 'd decided , it was n't half the world it ought to be . |
| 16 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 17 | The first is deciding what kind of investment bank it ought to be . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 21 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's the way it used to be ’ , Murphy says , ‘ and we ought to start from that premise ’ . |
| 23 | I want to hope that I 'm being melodramatic and everything will settle back to the way it used to be , before all this ghastliness , but I doubt it . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 25 | the way it used to be ? |
| 26 | ‘ That is the way it used to be . ’ |
| 27 | Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy . |
| 28 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 29 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 30 | Besides , Britain is still not sure what sort of country it ought to be . |