Example sentences of "it once did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , sleep might become disturbed , particularly when , in addition , kidney function does not decrease at night as much as it once did . |
| 2 | Although self-image does not obsess me as it once did , my interest continues and I find it exciting how fashions and looks have changed ; how many more possibilities there are for creativity and self-expression via clothes and image . |
| 3 | We begin with an exploded concept , for ‘ mind ’ no longer signifies the entity it once did . |
| 4 | Easy-to-run homes and a host of electrical aids mean that heavy housework does not take the toll it once did . |
| 5 | Whilst there is still some pressure for further reform , it is generally recognised that the Lords do perform a useful function and the abolition lobby no longer enjoys the political significance it once did . |
| 6 | Indeed , kinship could well be said to involve greater obligations to the old than it once did , because survivors now live longer and have fewer descendants who can share their care . |
| 7 | Moreover , AT&T 's labour-relations department has less influence than it once did , before decentralisation swept the company . |
| 8 | But somehow the invitation no longer holds the same enticing mystery as it once did . |
| 9 | A decision to save by building up money balances no longer carries with it the high opportunity cost that it once did . |
| 10 | Let us assume , in accordance with the Marxist concept , that in the earliest human societies there was no political domination , in however rudimentary a form ( not even the domination of women by men ) , though this may seem less probable than it once did , in the light of recent studies of animal societies . |
| 11 | It is as if , out of nowhere , his voice had spoken in the room , as it once did in the lane . |
| 12 | We watched it once did n't we ? |