Example sentences of "what used to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plumber — more women are taking on what used to be traditionally male jobs , mainly because they are better paid . |
| 2 | The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed . |
| 3 | What used to be so thrilling , though , was the sense of colossal size behind the playing , ready to erupt at any moment , plus the extraordinary risks Berman would take when the adrenalin was flowing . |
| 4 | It is all very well to hark back and praise what used to be then , over and above what is today , just because the aura of a past age hangs round it . |
| 5 | Looking at each other , wordlessly grappling , two people from the same small segment of the country had unknowingly provoked in each other ill-formed shapes of what used to be home , and as yet unrecognized images of what used to be themselves . |