Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it used to be a pond last century or |
| 2 | We start our school at eight o'clock , at nine o'clock it used to be prayers in the hall . |
| 3 | I know there 's an awful lot you can get on the road , but not not like it used to be . |
| 4 | Not like it used to be . |
| 5 | Not like it used to be . |
| 6 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 7 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 8 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 9 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 10 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 11 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 12 | Right up to the , right over , well it used to be er start two fields off . |
| 13 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 14 | Well it used to be , that 's where the , that 's where the used to be . |
| 15 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 16 | Well it used to be a coaching inn did n't it ? |
| 17 | Well it used to be slang . |
| 18 | And I said , well it used to be |
| 19 | ‘ If you 've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence . |
| 20 | The final determination of the ley theory 's status is obviously desirable ; if it is a mare 's nest in Britain , unlike in South America , then it ought to be despatched as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | According to Gandhi , if it is at all possible for man to describe this power then it ought to be called Truth ( Satya ) , which is a derivative of Sat , which literally means that which is or exists . |
| 22 | However , if some people in the game are getting money then it ought to be shared out . |
| 23 | The increase in the number of prosecutions did not result , however , in a feeling of sympathy for homosexuals , but rather the feeling , as John Wolfenden expressed it , that ‘ nobody had any idea how much of it there was … but there was an impression that it was increasing ; and there was a feeling that if it was then it ought to be curbed ’ . |
| 24 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 25 | Oh oh yes yes the union did erm get that er sorted out you know , and er and then when the buses began to run it made it easier for those worked in Willenhall and er and it just be about threepence of fourpence in our money go there then , but erm and then the hours were altered you see , eight o'clock and finish at six o'clock and er and then it used to be seven to seven you see . |
| 26 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 27 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 28 | But it is hard to resist this plan put before me and indeed it ought to be tried since I have no other resource . |
| 29 | However , it is undeniably the case that the statute is less clear and concise than ideally it ought to be . |