Example sentences of "[verb] [that] once [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Our intelligence reports suggest that once the flight from Hawaii is aloft a bomb will explode at Laoag and they will ask for landing rights in Manila .
2 It is expected that once the number of people on the dole tops 3,000,000 next Spring , Mr Lilley 's budget will reach £75 billion .
3 Some people say that once the car is adjusted I should alternate between leaded and unleaded petrol ?
4 According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation .
5 Unkind souls are suggesting that once the money for the LHC has been sewn up it can only be a matter of time before CERN gets out the begging bowl for the VEC — Very Expensive Collider .
6 I realised that once the tour of the assembly area was over and the lunch began my chances of nosing around would be minimal .
7 As he was the NME 's star writer I guess Malcolm realised that once the band really started to get going , Nick would be able to help us out — whether he knew it or not .
8 Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt .
9 This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment .
10 Deuterium is the most commonly used fuel in attempts to create controlled fusion and the two chemists believed that once the deuterium was crammed inside the palladium within their test tube , the nuclei of the deuterium atoms would undergo nuclear fusion generating heat and either being transformed — as in all nuclear reactions — into new elements like helium or being shattered into their constituent parts , such as protons and neutrons .
11 The White Paper had stipulated that once the list was announced there would be no further designation of polytechnics for at least ten years .
12 Genentech says that once the company gains approval from the food and Drug Administration it will distribute the drug only to hospitals .
13 Corris says that once the ISDN lines are there , the company will be able to use them to nail up permanent and semi-permanent virtual circuits , potential competition for the company 's leased line business .
14 The law says that once the employment contracts have been accepted by the employee , then the employer should not make changes without agreement .
15 Moreover , the data show that once the crown cover is reduced below c. 70 per cent , runoff and erosion increased rapidly but that there was little difference when crown cover was between 70 and 90 per cent .
16 Finally , it was felt that once the rate of development charge was reduced there would be no clear principle as to the level at which it should continue to be levied — ‘ the process of reduction , once begun , would be difficult to stop ’ .
17 This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage .
18 A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse .
19 ‘ We hope that once the land is bought there will be a warden stationed there to help prevent unauthorised access , ’ she added .
20 These two questions alone , paradoxically , may actually stop further historical enquiry in its tracks , as pupils may feel that once an object has been labelled and identified , there is little more to be said about it .
21 One must also stress that there is an insidious tendency to assume that once the population figures had reached their lowest point , their subsequent recovery was continuous ; surviving evidence , however , suggests the contrary : that periods of rising population were at best intermittent and liable to sudden check from new epidemics .
22 They also know that once a person joins a bank , in most cases , they do so for life .
23 experience during the Falklands war and during Gulf war indicated that once an item was in production tremendous acceleration is possible in the real war situation .
24 Remember that once a design is either drawn on screen or recalled from the disk into the working memory , it will remain in the working memory as long as the controller remains switched on , or until you erase it from the screen with the ERASE DRAWING option from within the FUNCTION menu in the menu bar at the top of the design screen .
25 In addition , it involves new technology and we would hope that once the system is perfected large scale orders will follow .
26 It goes without saying that once a person is charged his status is changed .
27 People had been saying that once the war was over , things would change .
28 So they decided that once the christening party was in the hall which was gon na be three o'clock , they did n't stand much chance of erm
29 T. D. Orange Lodges had their processions — be an occasional explosion when someone tried to dodge between you and they decided that once the procession started , nobody must cross the bows .
30 The simplest way is to ensure that once the drama is under way these roles become highly significant in the drama .
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