Example sentences of "was once [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 2 | The area around Brimscombe was once a hive of industry , with numerous mills . |
| 3 | Brimscombe Port was once a hive of activity but has now largely disappeared . |
| 4 | Team manager for the Chapman team is dad Steve … he was once a driver himself … used to race against a lad called Mansell … |
| 5 | Eardisley was once a station on the largely single-track line along the Wye valley westwards across the border into the rugged country around Brecon . |
| 6 | This attractive four-hundred-year-old listed building situated in a conservation area in the old town of Bridgnorth was once a Temperance hostel . |
| 7 | ‘ Suragai who was once Sergei ; the counsellor to a Khan who was once a servant of the Empire — ’ his father pronounced . |
| 8 | This was once a gold shop . |
| 9 | In a lighter vein — There was once a man who was at work kibble filling . |
| 10 | Mm , they used to have like big dances and thin in the Grand Hall of all places , but music was once a year , things like that but they do n't have that now . |
| 11 | It was once a hunting lodge of the Kings of England . |
| 12 | But what was once a breakthrough , a crucial realignment of taste among white rock fans , has subsequently congealed into orthodoxy . |
| 13 | There was once a girl called Vasilissa whose mother had died , and whose father married again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | City could be favourites because the Manchester-born player was once a supporter of the Maine Road club . |
| 16 | City could be favourites because the Manchester-born player was once a supporter of the Maine Road club . |
| 17 | The most proud possession among these is the collection of Oskar Reinhart ( 1885–1965 ) at the gallery Am Ro'merholz , a country house in what was once a vineyard on the edge of the town . |
| 18 | What was once a budget exercise becomes an analysis of policy . |
| 19 | Montreuil has a fascinating history , it was once a port but it was abandoned by the sea years ago and is now 14 kilometres from the coast . |
| 20 | They are part of a captive market , for every other outlet in what was once a shopping promenade is now burned out , abandoned or both . |
| 21 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 22 | There was once a wave that was Victor Hugo 's wave . |
| 23 | There was once a king who decided that it was time for his son to marry . |
| 24 | There was once a hotel in Somerset which proved conclusively that its three stars from the AA and RAC were an indication of facilities , not design standards , . |
| 25 | FOOTBALL ace Franz Beckenbauer has gone potty — he thinks he was once a flower . |
| 26 | It would be the final revenge of Lambeth — where John Major was once a councillor , as was Mr Livingstone . |
| 27 | The burly barman , it might be he was once a footballer : he booted the man up and down and up and down and out into the street . |
| 28 | The plateau of Paúl da Serra itself is an extensive moorland area where there was once a proposal to build an international airport . |
| 29 | What was once a landscape of banks of back-to-backs has become an asymmetrical mess of flats and maisonettes . |
| 30 | What was once a landscape of banks of back-to-backs has become an asymmetrical mess of flats and maisonettes . |