Example sentences of "[pron] have once be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 2 | The one which had once been the spare room she now occupied permanently . |
| 3 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 4 | She had once been a famous athlete , and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence . |
| 5 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that she had once been a Benedictine nun of the convent of Carrow , which was situated near the church where she eventually had her cell : to this day Benedictine nuns take the title ‘ Dame ’ , the honorary title of any woman of rank at this time . |
| 7 | He was reduced to a short old man who had once been the great painter Marius Durance . |
| 8 | Where he drove , surrounded by cars and bicycles and mopeds and minibuses , there had once been the strained drone of Dakotas pulling gliders into the air for the flights to the bridges and crossroads behind the D-Day beaches of Normandy , and for the flights to the Dutch town of Arnhem . |
| 9 | There had once been an outside staircase leading up to the flat roof but that , too , had collapsed . |
| 10 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 11 | It had once been a middle-of-the-road paper with a big circulation and had traditionally reflected the views , or prejudices , of its middle-of-the-road readers . |
| 12 | It had once been the great hall of the castle , and is among the fairest buildings of the twelfth century which Britain possesses . |
| 13 | Then , after Mr Dalglish had shocked the soccer world by resigning in the middle of last season , Mr Moran left the boot room to steady the ship , until Graeme Souness was free to leave Glasgow Rangers and return to Liverpool , where he had once been a key player . |
| 14 | Joseph Maloney , secretary of the local angling association , said at the time that earlier , less serious pollution caused by Mogul had killed all fish life in what had once been a good trout and salmon river . |
| 15 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 16 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 17 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 18 | The cliffs which had proved so difficult bordered a valley a mile or more across , the bed of what had once been a great , meandering river . |
| 19 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 20 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 21 | The glade where the ghost orchids grew amid the crumbling remains of what had once been a Roman villa was as cool as the church , and an unmistakable smell of summer blossoms mingled with the lush green growth of the wood . |
| 22 | What had once been a pleasant Saturday afternoon 's entertainment was fast becoming a greedy , unskilled exercise to satisfy the demands of the uninitiated . |
| 23 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |
| 24 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |
| 25 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 26 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 27 | They had obviously been converted from what had once been an elegant bedroom . |
| 28 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |
| 29 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 30 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |