Example sentences of "once [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For once the cliche that racegoers wept openly was all too true , but these were tears of real sadness — though it was hardly fair to ‘ blame ’ her conqueror , who had won the race in dour style ( and afterwards took the Jockey Club Cup from his sole opponent Achilles before ending his racing career unplaced in the Prix du Conseil Municipal ) . |
| 2 | In nightly theatrical TV rituals of social order and chaos , a stream of hero-policemen stand at the symbolic crossroads between peace and mayhem , and the detective and the chief officer now operate at the point where once the church and its priests declaimed on categories of good and evil and the resulting binary codes they produce . |
| 3 | ( The soup can not be reheated once the yoghurt and egg yolk have been added ; if the soup is to be frozen or refrigerated before use , do not add the yoghurt and egg yolk until just before serving . ) |
| 4 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 5 | Some hedgerow stops are often the beginnings of a new burrow system once the doe and her young move out . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , France was a very demanding market , as both Laura and Bernard were well aware , and once the freshness and newness of the product had worn off , it was critically important that the merchandise was of the highest quality . |
| 7 | The CNAA was not aware that the new premises were on part of the site of what was once the Home and Colonial Infant School Society , which from 1836 had been one of the country 's first teacher training organizations , and had occupied 334–54 Gray 's Inn Road in 1839 . |
| 8 | … ’ bit once the sun and beer has gone to the head and we 're talking as we are after this weekend severe overcooking . |
| 9 | A boat which was once the pride and joy of Lawrence of Arabia is to sail again . |
| 10 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 11 | President , delegates , the events of last October , and the coal crisis , dramatically showed at once the strength and the weakness of the trade union movement today . |
| 12 | There 's still fleece on the outside , so once the drizzle or the rain starts , a waterproof needs to come out of the sack . |
| 13 | It is the doctor 's job to tell the patient or the patient 's family , when he or she is terminally ill , but once the diagnosis and prognosis have been given , the nurse copes with the emotional effects . |
| 14 | There are other methods of storing food such as preserving , drying , or bottling , but these are of limited value if you live on your own , since , even if you entertain a lot , you would probably waste a lot of preserves or bottled food , as their condition quickly deteriorates once the jar or bottle is opened . |
| 15 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 16 | ‘ Q-shed ’ was once the warehouse and booking office for the much-loved P. & A. Campbell pleasure steamers , Today , a wide range of exciting and dynamic events and activities frequently changed are held here . |
| 17 | And all at once the coldness that had seemed to freeze her was being swept aside by a sudden rushing warmth . |
| 18 | The Silmarillion accordingly expresses more than once the theory that orcs were in fact captured elves ‘ by slow acts of cruelty … corrupted and enslaved ’ ( S , p. 50 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a bedding ceremony and once the bride and bridegroom have been put to bed and everything — but everything — sprinkled with holy water , then the marriage is completed . ’ |
| 20 | The El Nino is a massive surge of warm water that , once every decade or so , builds up in the eastern Pacific along the South American seaboard . |
| 21 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 22 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 23 | Eventually it should be quite sufficient to weigh yourself once every week or two . |
| 24 | Thomas , whom she met once every week or two , for dinner , or a trip to the theatre , or , if it was the weekend , a forage round the Upper East Side galleries or a visit to the Whitney or the newly opened Guggenheim Museum . |
| 25 | The Midland Railway Centre run a combined diesel and steam weekend once every month but the next purely diesel running date for your diaries is the weekend of October 17 and 18 1992 . |
| 26 | Er , on an average here we sent out a newsletter once every month and we have things called a crime line which is an answerphone service updated every week with all of our crimes on it . |
| 27 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 28 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 29 | There was once a wave that was Victor Hugo 's wave . |
| 30 | Rostov sorted through the physical descriptions which Burun had supplied of the principal members of the court and knew that he was addressing Va'na Khatun , once a slave and concubine , but now the wife of Arjun and grandmother to the wife of Burun 's own son Jotan . |