Example sentences of "it used [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to be possible to complete three circuits of the Barkhor before being detained . |
| 2 | It used to be possible to skate over the frozen water from Ulvik right out to the Hardanger Fjord , but now the hydro-electric station discharges gallons of hot water into the fjord , and it no longer freezes in winter . |
| 3 | It used to be possible to obtain second-hand telescopes at low cost , but by now a really good , cheap second-hand telescope is about as common as a great auk . |
| 4 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 5 | And er oh it used to be great fun |
| 6 | I remember that warehouse , it used to be nice department store , everything knowingly oversold . |
| 7 | It used to be respectable , an acceptable article of faith even , to quote Wordsworth . |
| 8 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 9 | It used to be occasional or more perhaps , sometimes show time different shows and that . |
| 10 | It used to be necessary whenever there was a change of use to one of these forms of enterprise for planning permission to be obtained . |
| 11 | it 's forehead cos that 's what people say and it used to be fore head and they change all the time that 's why need to record the words and see how they 're being pronounced . |
| 12 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 13 | And it used to be dark brown . |
| 14 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 15 | Yeah , yeah , no it used to be grand , but it |
| 16 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 17 | ‘ It used to be salted char that was popular — I 'm told that Henry VIII ordered it in barrelfuls — and then there were char pies — some of them three or four stone in weight : now they seem to want it potted in little jars . |
| 18 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 19 | Oh yes , it used to be wonderful to go there … |
| 20 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |
| 21 | Er and then I 'll tell you then when was in the er on Square and of course this council house as what this council house what 's built now , it was n't there then , it used to be different council house , there used to be a great big archway . |
| 22 | I mean he runs up and down , he it used to be lovely , all the grass . |
| 23 | Oh it used to be lovely |
| 24 | People said it used to be lovely . |
| 25 | It used to be acceptable in the same way as incest . |
| 26 | All over the ground floor it used to be beautiful red tiles , spotless . |
| 27 | She says it used to be beautiful , but the rectory and the church are a disgrace . |
| 28 | It used to be common for agreements for the supply of crude oil to do the same , but these have gone out of fashion in recent years with the volatility of oil prices : they may reappear if the oil price settles down . |
| 29 | Once it used to be just child psychology but we now know that we develop all the time from womb to tomb . |