Example sentences of "[det] [be] once [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because this is once a year , there 's not |
| 2 | This was once a world reserved for specialists . |
| 3 | Now a colourful scene of narrow boats with their traditional decoration , this was once a metropolis of water transport created in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to serve the rapidly expanding local industries . |
| 4 | This was once a gamekeeper 's cottage belonging to a large estate . |
| 5 | Set in a beautiful garden , this was once a private villa and retains a homely atmosphere . |
| 6 | This was once a reputed halt for pilgrims . |
| 7 | This was once a powerful place . |
| 8 | The fact that this contains three lancet windows shows that this was once a building . |
| 9 | This was once a gold shop . |
| 10 | This was once a thriving mill . |
| 11 | This was once an important industry there and survived until the 1870s . |
| 12 | It is instantly evident to a visitor to Alford that this was once an elegant and thriving market town . |
| 13 | This was once the manorial mill of Flaxley Abbey , and a board showing the grinding charges was formerly exhibited at Gloucester Folk Museum . |
| 14 | ‘ This was once the safest city in Africa . |
| 15 | Like the other Pyrenean divisions , Béarn is medieval ; this was once the largest of the furiously independent mountain states , a viscounty which came into existence as early as 820 , was at different moments of its history the vassal of Aragon and England , became joined by marriage with the powerful viscounty of Foix and with Basse-Navarre , and finally , when Henri IV , ‘ le grand Béarnais ’ , became king of the whole of France in 1589 , was integrated with the Crown . |
| 16 | This was once the case in Britain . |
| 17 | Substantial puddings like these were once a vital fuel and restorative for those who laboured in the fields . |
| 18 | After the latrines , a wash of hands and face , but no shave because shaving is done by the barber and that is once a week with the bath . |
| 19 | Oh well that 's once a month . |
| 20 | That 's once a month . |
| 21 | The last shop , the post office stores , closed about seven years ago — even that was once a chapel no longer in use , but there is still the pub , the Eagle . |
| 22 | No it was what they called the manual that 's for learning woodwork , that was once a week . |
| 23 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 24 | Only the closed minded can pretend that it 's bad news that more people can afford to travel , that was once the province of the few , is now open to the majority . |