Example sentences of "[was/were] once [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were once a university lecturer ? |
| 2 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |
| 3 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 4 | The visitors were herded into two large halls , which were once the hotel ballroom and dining room . |
| 5 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 6 | This attractive four-hundred-year-old listed building situated in a conservation area in the old town of Bridgnorth was once a Temperance hostel . |
| 7 | This was once a gold shop . |
| 8 | It was once a hunting lodge of the Kings of England . |
| 9 | What was once a budget exercise becomes an analysis of policy . |
| 10 | They are part of a captive market , for every other outlet in what was once a shopping promenade is now burned out , abandoned or both . |
| 11 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 12 | Jeremy is a maths teacher and Sheila , who now runs the business , was once a history teacher which accounts for her detailed knowledge of the area — a great help to any visitor . |
| 13 | He was once a Hunt Saboteur and still has a dent in his buttocks to prove it . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | It was once a dairy farm but with the introduction of milk quotas only a few cows are kept now to provide milk , cheese , cream and yogurt . |
| 16 | As shopkeepers , it seems apt that Sue and Reg Bass 's house was once a village shop . |
| 17 | The last hurdle to liquidation was overcome in August when a New York bankruptcy court refused to reopen a class action negligence suit brought by 160,000 former investors in Jim Bakker 's Praise the Lord ministry , which was once a Laventhol client . |
| 18 | It was once a coaching house , standing on the main road between England and Scotland ( all that remains today of this road is a grass track ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | STEPHEN MANSFIELD Hopes gone up in smoke : Phil Green of People In Need examines the charred and sodden mess that was once a £1million aid cargo for Romania and Bosnia |
| 21 | This attractive country home dates back to the 16th century when it was once a farm labourer 's cottage . |
| 22 | The Theatre in Chipping Norton was once a Salvation Army Citadel , and now plays host to touring shows , panto , cabaret and films . |
| 23 | ‘ There was once a bumper sticker that read ‘ remember the good old days when air was clean and sex was dirty ? ’ |
| 24 | The line was once a mineral extraction route constructed mainly for coal mining in the area . |
| 25 | Like Mr Gorbachev , he was once a party apparatchik . |
| 26 | Special church services were held , sports days organized for both adults and children , and parish teas were served in the village hall , which was once the village school . |
| 27 | At their foot , on what was once the sea floor , lie nodules . |
| 28 | A plaque tells how it was once the wartime headquarters of 98 Squadron which operated Mitchells from Dunsfold . |
| 29 | Greenlands was once the family home of W H Smith of newsagent and bookshop fame . |
| 30 | Greenlands was once the family home of W H Smith ( of newsagent and bookshop fame ) . |