Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] once [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I write this the survivors are eight days old , and being fed Brineshrimp once a day , and powdered flake or powdered High Protein once a day . |
| 2 | Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off . |
| 3 | For those who liked cleaning their buttons there was button polish and a British parade once a year on the King 's Birthday . |
| 4 | The section on trade in services reaffirmed the importance of the implementation of consistent and dynamic trade-promotion operations , and provided for further negotiations on more detailed provisions once the outcome of the " Uruguay Round " of GATT multilateral trade negotiations had become known ( see also p. 37227-28 ) . |
| 5 | The usefulness of certain of the activities , like visiting old people once a year or screening , was disputed by the medical profession . |
| 6 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 7 | Soak your nails in warm olive oil once a week to keep them in good condition . |
| 8 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 9 | Other men 's wives did proper jobs once the children were off their hands . |
| 10 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 11 | Most parents expect their children to be clean by the age of 2½ years , but 16 per cent of 3-year-olds still show signs of faecal incontinence once a week or more . |
| 12 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
| 13 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 14 | One of the bonuses of being Magazine Editor is that you get a three minute Pastoral visit once a month . |
| 15 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 16 | Never skip your conditioning routine and use an intensive remoisturiser once a week . |
| 17 | Fifty guaranteed seats once a week will give the advance bookings a most healthy look . |
| 18 | The consequences to any patient-nurse relationship once a nurse allowed that could be as disastrous , if more excusable , as when bullying took place the other way round . |
| 19 | Hair that 's been coloured with a permanent product will benefit from an intensive conditioner once a week . |
| 20 | With its younger sibling , the Edinburgh International Television Festival , the EIFF supplies a focus for the world of the moving image once a year . |
| 21 | Free activities : The local tourist offices provide a free guided walk once a week . |
| 22 | You may also find your hair benefits from an intensive re-moisturiser once a week . |
| 23 | Yet another method was to harness the fish , with a thin silk cord that unwound over a large pulley , actuating an electric relay once every revolution . |
| 24 | It also fashioned an improved operational instrument for ministerial use to buy time and to distribute scarce resources once a dispute started . |
| 25 | We had roast meat once a week on Sundays , served at noon on the dot , usually their own home-killed sheep or pork . |
| 26 | ‘ So you go home to Long Island once a month , ’ said Harvey . |
| 27 | One organisation , which faced a marked seasonal demand for its output and made substantial hirings once a year , reserved its temporary vacancies for school leavers . |
| 28 | Lights are on 12 hours per day , I do a 20 per cent water change fortnightly and feed frozen food once a day . |
| 29 | O'Hara , he said , was the terrifying shadow on the wall which every child saw through half-closed lids once the nursery door had shut . |
| 30 | It is possible , however , to start off with good intentions , but to slip back on all these important elements once the pressure of circumstances begins to dictate . |