Example sentences of "[that] once [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supporting this work are the government 's Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and the US Air Force , which are responsible for cleaning up poisoned communities like love canal , or old plants that once made the herbicide Agent Orange . |
| 2 | But the most sought-after item of the day was the name plate that once adorned the publisher 's desk.Simon Garrett reports . |
| 3 | Forming the border between Hailing and Snodland can be clearly seen the road or lane that once formed the boundary between the two villages , all that remains of this is a small portion below Clements Farm . |
| 4 | The vintage machines that once ruled the world . |
| 5 | The River Dee is below on the right , concealed by woodlands that once harboured a colony of red deer : access to it by cars is provided by a descending side road to a bridge near a chapel with a corrugated iron roof and a former sawmill in sylvan surroundings . |
| 6 | The trees that once sheltered the man of the forest have been chopped down and sold to shelter the man of the city in Tokyo and Nagasaki . |
| 7 | BACK AT the museum , Family Man Barrett sits on a concrete block that once housed the diesel tank to fuel Bob 's pressing plant . |
| 8 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 9 | Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations . |
| 10 | Other tales claim she was the GHOST of a monstrous and savage cat that once prowled the area . |