Example sentences of "have once be [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had once been a largely invisible world of mental hospitals , private suffering , and professional services now appears in local communities as homelessness , strange persons in public , and bewilderment about who is responsible for whom . |
| 2 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 3 | Above the rambling parkland belonging to Randall Lodge was an area which had once been a rigidly formal garden , but was now only just kept in check by two elderly men . |
| 4 | The only other customers in the ‘ Ravel ’ that afternoon were a musician with a small Irish fiddle and his companion , a tall skeletal man with the remains of what had once been an extremely fine hat , crammed down over his greasy locks . |
| 5 | In the harbour lay enormous foreign freighters for carrying the timber away , exuding oil over the graves of what had once been the most famous coral gardens in the Far East . |