Example sentences of "[that] once [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go up Rue de la Chancellerie , past Hecq Congo ( a shop that once clothed the Belgian empire builders ) and turn left into Rue Baron Horta . |
| 2 | This means that once installed the smaller chip is rotated 180 degrees with respect to the larger chip . |
| 3 | The remnant of a larger lake that once filled the surrounding valley , it has a superficial layer of fresh or slightly saline water down to 50 m deep , replenished seasonally by glacial streams , notably Onyx River , and stirred by their turbulence . |
| 4 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 5 | These majestic stones , flecked with orange and white lichen , are the last of thousands that once littered the prehistoric landscape . |
| 6 | The lower reaches of the Sevre Niortaise are swollen with the waters that once covered the whole area , until medieval monks started to dig a spider-web of ditches to drain it . |