Example sentences of "as it used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appropriate too , because the sudden greening of British politics , the rediscovery of the quality of life ( QOL , as it used to be known among Labour ministers on a previous incarnation ) introduces a catalytic ingredient into the brew known as Thatcherism . |
| 2 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 3 | Producing a coupe derivative , even in the limited numbers envisaged by Bentley with the Continental R , is not as easy as it used to be . |
| 4 | But now nothing on the political-economic front is as clear-cut as it used to be . |
| 5 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not as black and white as it used to be . |
| 7 | I 'm certainly forced to admit I 've noticed it in myself — my thinking has n't been nearly as controlled as it used to be . |
| 8 | Counselling Help and Advice Together ( address on page 154 ) , an organisation for nurses , says that this difficulty is not as common as it used to be as fewer nursing staff actually ‘ live in ’ . |
| 9 | It 's not as financially viable as it used to be ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Not as funny as it used to be . |
| 12 | The music is still as good as it used to be . |
| 13 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 14 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 15 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ It 's a cruel treatment , but it 's not as bad as it used to be . ’ |
| 17 | The bush — or , as it used to be called , dwarf ( misleading these days in view of the growing popularity of the miniature and patio types ) — is the form that is most popular and commonly planted in gardens everywhere . |
| 18 | The basic species type , Rosa pimpinellifolia ( or , as it used to be called , R. spinosissima ) grows very well in most soils , but flourishes particularly in light sandy soils in which it can indulge its natural habit of spreading to form large prickly thickets by means of underground runners and suckers . |
| 19 | It 's not as much fun being a GP nowadays as it used to be . |
| 20 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 21 | ‘ People are beginning to come round , it 's not as bad as it used to be , but some of the professors can be a bit aloof and you can feel like Cinderella sometimes . ’ |
| 22 | Bathrooms and modern amenities were added to them all but great care was taken to ensure the original character of the buildings was retained , and in fact the original ambience has been left so intact as to produce a veritable living museum of simple , rustic life as it used to be . |
| 23 | A visitor can wander through rooms which reincarnate life as it used to be lived over the last centuries . |
| 24 | This may reflect the fact that society has changed since the early days of sociology , and religion and its associated values , emotions and beliefs is no longer as important as it used to be . |
| 25 | The view that the concern about the declining calibre of councillors has much in common with the opinion that Punch is not as good as it used to be , and the well-known response that it never was , can be supported from the details given in Table 7. 1 . |
| 26 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 27 | I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were . |
| 28 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 29 | Er quite so today as it used to be . |
| 30 | Even those who seek to be integrated into the new culture ( or ‘ go native ’ as it used to be called ) will remain strangers in the new culture . |