Example sentences of "[coord] once [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But they could be seriously jeopardised by the Zambian and Zimbabwean proposal because there is no adequate system for marking skins , and once a pelt has reached the fur markets of Frankfurt , London or New York there is no realistic way of knowing where it came from .
2 Some schools abuse us and once a kid 's in , they leave them here — but if I think a school understands us then I 'll fit in with them .
3 And once a choice has been made , this , in itself , imposes constraints .
4 If danger threatens powerful muscles can snap the valves tightly shut , and once a bivalve has closed itself in this way it can be very difficult to force it open — it has ‘ clammed ’ up .
5 But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare .
6 And once a flaw has appeared , it tends to be copied as subsequent layers of crystal encrust themselves on top of it .
7 A series is in course of production and implementation in both areas , and once a programme is introduced in Class I this is the beginning of a seven year ride which can not be slowed down or stopped .
8 For a skilled operator it is faster and easier to produce a new drawing , and once a drawing is on file , making changes and producing updated versions becomes much more efficient .
9 and once a repair has been carried out , the wall will dry out .
10 The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water .
11 And once the springs were cleared again , and all the junk removed , I 've , I did n't mention that it , it took about six months to get all the junk , prams and barbed wire and tins etcetera etcetera , removed , before you could actually start anything .
12 ‘ It is a fairly straightforward job , ’ says Mr Bristow , ‘ and once the check is done and the order compiled , the shop manager will sign it off . ’
13 In the ditches and rice-fields these grow submerged and emersed forms , and once the water has dried out , they convert to the land form and remain dormant until the next rainy season .
14 The client will probably negotiate with the contractor before a contract is signed to ensure his needs will be met , and once the contract is signed he will have little involvement until the building is complete .
15 It lets the acid in slowly and once the acids in what does it stop next ?
16 ‘ Oh , we have so many robbers here , ’ he started sympathetically , ‘ and once the money is taken , I 'm afraid it 's gone . ’
17 This is not intended to be nomination in the traditional sense and once the subcontractor has been named ( subject to reasonable objection by the contractor if the naming is during the course of the contract ) , that subcontractor becomes almost entirely the responsibility of the contractor .
18 However , we can restore the corners without disturbing the edges , and once the corners are correct , we can not find ourselves left with a single pair of edges to exchange ( as we shall see later ) .
19 And once the Worm 's in captivity — in a zoo or suchlike — it 'll go on reminding folk about Kershaw and the unemployed . ’
20 I think , and once the awareness is there , then the movement can begin .
21 You should gybe well in front of it and once the turn is completed look behind for your wave .
22 The crystalline regions are held together sideways by hydroxyls which have got rid of all their attached water molecules and once the system has locked solid into a regular crystal , the interstices of the crystal become inaccessible to water .
23 This is the path generally chosen by visitors going to Coiruisg , and once the hill-top is reached , the guides are quite contented to allow the visitor to see a small comer of lake .
24 So the sample may not have been complete er and once the sample was taken , one could have lost some of the material .
25 Once the market situation ( customers , competitors , suppliers , middlemen etc ) has been identified and evaluated , and once the decision has been made to penetrate , or develop , a particular market , then the role of the marketing mix is crucial .
26 ‘ The catch in this heaven , ’ she went on , ‘ is that the brain has only got so much dopamine to offer , and once the cocaine has used it all up , then that 's the end of the pleasure .
27 And once the households are calculated , the final process is to convert the households into dwellings .
28 And once the baby 's born everyone 's bound to calm down and take stock of things , realise what 's important in life .
29 Because they 're frightened we will reveal their rottenness to the people , they 're frightened that we will reveal the truth to the people , and once the truth is revealed to the people they wo n't be able to cow them and keep them from making a free society , a society of human beings .
30 And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation .
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