Example sentences of "once [pers pn] [be] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Once we 're found that favourite shape , there is nothing more frustrating than discovering that fashion has made it obsolete .
2 Once it is decided that certain assumptions are true , it only makes sense to demonstrate this by counting on them in practice .
3 There are manifest dangers in the way a relative norm is chosen , but once it is accepted that relative validity is all we can aim at these need not worry us unduly .
4 Once it is conceded that non-human animals might have qualities of this sort the observer is challenged to interpret the alleged symbolism and the alleged symptoms of emotion and attitude .
5 Once it was realized that financial self-sufficiency was no longer possible , the focus moved to forms of state control of the railway and the need for state resources to fund its deficit .
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