Example sentences of "which once [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real price though , has been paid by the wildlife which once lived in Cannop brook . |
| 2 | The fertile biochemistry of forests constantly racked and renewed by volcanic eruption — which once prevailed throughout the cooling surface of the globe — still continues in Indonesia , and amongst her trembling islands we find time-capsules of our earliest beginnings , when dragons stalked the earth . |
| 3 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 4 | The sovereign 's power to debase the currency has passed to the commercial banks and so has the seigniorage which once accrued to the state . |
| 5 | Streets which once throbbed with dock and factory workers and their families were now deserted . |
| 6 | Portable operating systems , such as Unix , are also a threat to IBM and other companies which once prospered on proprietary ones , such as Wang and Data General . |
| 7 | Johnny Marr simply clutched his twelve-string Rickenbacker ( Which once belonged to one of his heroes , Roger McGuinn from The Byrds ) and concentrated on the meagre task of fulfilling the promise held by one of the most eagerly awaited début albums in history . |
| 8 | On the other side of the quay is the Beatles Boat Restaurant , a large boat which once belonged to the Beatles pop group which arrived in Madeira in a very sorry state but has now been renovated and , along with many small boats , forms an interesting open-air restaurant complex . |
| 9 | Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves . |
| 10 | In 1912 he first used stencilled figures and letters in ‘ Guitare ’ , an oval painting owned by the Musée de Grenoble , and in 1913 adopted collage techniques , as in ‘ Tivoli-Cinéma ’ , a work which once belonged to Pablo Picasso . |
| 11 | ‘ I think it 's sad , especially here , to see the fields which once belonged to my ancestors . ’ |
| 12 | And there was an almost disastrous end for this 1913 American motorbike , which once belonged to the actor , Steve McQueen … |
| 13 | Equally intriguing is the bronze pony cap , which once belonged to Sir Walter Scott . |
| 14 | Mickey Mouse , that great icon of our times , was seen bestriding the continent of Europe — which once thought of itself as coterminous with Christendom — like a colossus . |
| 15 | It is surely not being excessively pompous to see this as one sign of a trivialisation of European civilisation , or to accept that there has been a catastrophic spiritual impoverishment of national life when a country such as our own , which once thought of itself as Christian , can for the most part simply ignore today 's commemoration of Christ 's passion and death . |
| 16 | The ‘ space ’ which once existed for police and pickets to negotiate a mutually acceptable code of picket-line conduct has been closed off , as the miners and striking print workers discovered to their cost . |
| 17 | There is general agreement that Taylor has oversimplified the traditional relationship which once existed between working-class supporters and their clubs . |
| 18 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 19 | It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism . |
| 20 | But this terminology and the politics which once went with it have now all but completely vanished . |
| 21 | We know less and less the meaning of the master passion of the spirit which once drove through Christian men . |
| 22 | The legality of money market dealings by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London , which once amounted to exposure of £5bn is being challenged by its auditor , Anthony Hazell , a partner in Deloitte Haskins and Sells , with the support of the Audit Commission , the local authority financial watchdog . |
| 23 | CERTAINLY one of the more picturesque places on the railway scene is the site of the original Wye Valley Railway , which once ran between Chepstow and Monmouth . |
| 24 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 25 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 26 | The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music . |
| 27 | The old divorce laws which once sat on the statute books were viewed with contempt even by many of those who made their living from them . |
| 28 | Magnificent is the fine stone canopy which once stood over the tomb of Bishop Lucianus by Matěj Rejsek , 1493 . |
| 29 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |
| 30 | This is the Drowned Forest , which once stood on the land , before the sea came in over it . |