Example sentences of "it used to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 2 | The law is very unclear on what this time limit is — it used to be six years , but some would hold that there is now no limit to the liability . |
| 3 | It used to be six months did n't it , and now it 's gone up |
| 4 | It used to be possible to complete three circuits of the Barkhor before being detained . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And er oh it used to be great fun |
| 9 | I remember that warehouse , it used to be nice department store , everything knowingly oversold . |
| 10 | It used to be respectable , an acceptable article of faith even , to quote Wordsworth . |
| 11 | It used to be fifty thousand in n it , the prize ? |
| 12 | It used to be that Opposition spokesmen quoted figures that were four years out of date , but the hon. Gentleman depends on statistics that go back 10 years . |
| 13 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 14 | Yes , it used to be two and a half times the wage and in the long run rather than mess about taking the house off them |
| 15 | Well he 's , he 's no , he ge that 's not a full time job like , but I mean , it used to be one , but |
| 16 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 17 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 18 | It used to be all green that 's better |
| 19 | It 's different , it used to be all green ice cream , but it 's now got all white layers , got a white , white |
| 20 | It used to be all in that little log book on the wall . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | It used to be occasional or more perhaps , sometimes show time different shows and that . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It used to be seventy something . |
| 26 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 27 | And it used to be dark brown . |
| 28 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 29 | It 's certainly absolutely dreadful and erm people complain when they come down and say , whatever 's happened to , it used to be such an attractive place , but obviously when the grass is knee high it does n't look very nice for anyone to see . |
| 30 | He says Fridays are unbeleivable through here and it used to be such a nice quiet town . |