Example sentences of "was once [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pile of grimy bed-linen lies in what was once a ward . |
| 2 | There was once a good deal more colour and laughter in the life of this tight-lipped fashion genius , when a second apartment in the palazzo was occupied by his business partner and close friend Sergio Galeotti , who died in 1985 . |
| 3 | In the US , there was once a blank disc marketed as Invisicalc , but that now seems to have vanished … . |
| 4 | By the time the draw takes place the audience will have had an eyeful of Loren and an earful of Pavarotti , who was once a deep-lying centre-forward and is now roughly the same shape as the ball . |
| 5 | Readers of this column will be aware that Mr Hayes was once a fierce critic of the Government 's running of the health service . |
| 6 | The swan was once a highly regarded delicacy on the Christmas table . |
| 7 | But what was once a breakthrough , a crucial realignment of taste among white rock fans , has subsequently congealed into orthodoxy . |
| 8 | Three-quarters of a mile south of the church , down a bumpy farm track which was once a well used road , is the greatest beauty of all , a silvery oak-timbered house called The Ley . |
| 9 | On May 21st Mr Yavlinsky and Mr Allison came to see Mr Zoellick , who was once a student of Mr Allison 's . |
| 10 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 11 | It would be the final revenge of Lambeth — where John Major was once a councillor , as was Mr Livingstone . |
| 12 | This was once a world reserved for specialists . |
| 13 | Like Mr Gorbachev , he was once a party apparatchik . |
| 14 | Unlike Eastern Europe 's fallen leaders , Mr Castro was once a genuine revolutionary . |
| 15 | A survey * of studies of costs has just been published by the OECD 's general economics division ( which shows how mainstream economists are being drawn into what was once a green ghetto ) . |
| 16 | People with new money spread out into the newly-built suburbs where the houses , like the cars , had got longer and lower and were dignified with the name ‘ ranch-style ’ as though there were unspoilt acres in which to roam outside , rather than the swallowing of land in highways , parkways , expressways and cloverleaf intersections to enable suburban man to reach what was once a rural neighbourhood . |
| 17 | Ian Paisley was once a member of the Shankill Road Lodge of the Orange Order and a lodge chaplain , but he resigned from the Order when the County Grand Lodge refused to expel Sir Robin Kinahan for attending a funeral service in a Roman Catholic chapel . |
| 18 | There 's a gateway over at that forestry plantation , and there was once a castle there . |
| 19 | THE PLOP of the fleeing water vole , followed by an underwater smoke-screen of silt , was once a familiar indicator of the presence of these mammals on our waterways . |
| 20 | Theirs was once a common line of business , but now there are only about two dozen professional burners left in the country . |
| 21 | Even the vaulted garage was once a refectory where Henry VIII is supposed to have supped , no doubt stabling his horses in the adjacent Tudor coach house . |
| 22 | At Kingsley Park , opposite the Royal North Devon golf club , what was once a leisure complex with holiday bungalows and apartments has now become a development of retirement and second homes . |
| 23 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 24 | There was once a golf correspondent for a respected national newspaper who , from beside the green , used to urge slow players to ‘ get on with it , do n't you know my life is ebbing away ’ . |
| 25 | Paying income tax was once a middle-class prerogative . |
| 26 | The leisure chief , who was once a Labour party member but is now an ardent Thatcherite , was so incensed by the FT leading article that he has cancelled Grand Met 's daily subscription . |
| 27 | Obviously it was once a depressed area and equally obviously much remains to be done , but things have certainly changed since the advent of the HIDB and WIIC . |
| 28 | The capacity to re-represent in conscious awareness what was once a ‘ presentational continuum ’ of past events . |
| 29 | The area around Brimscombe was once a hive of industry , with numerous mills . |
| 30 | Brimscombe Port was once a hive of activity but has now largely disappeared . |