Example sentences of "this 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 . |