Example sentences of "[det] be once [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | because this is once a year , there 's not |
2 | The fact that this contains three lancet windows shows that this was once a building . |
3 | This was once a gamekeeper 's cottage belonging to a large estate . |
4 | This was once a gold shop . |
5 | This was once a world reserved for specialists . |
6 | Now a colourful scene of narrow boats with their traditional decoration , this was once a metropolis of water transport created in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to serve the rapidly expanding local industries . |
7 | This was once the case in Britain . |
8 | After the latrines , a wash of hands and face , but no shave because shaving is done by the barber and that is once a week with the bath . |
9 | Oh well that 's once a month . |
10 | That 's once a month . |
11 | The last shop , the post office stores , closed about seven years ago — even that was once a chapel no longer in use , but there is still the pub , the Eagle . |
12 | No it was what they called the manual that 's for learning woodwork , that was once a week . |
13 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
14 | Only the closed minded can pretend that it 's bad news that more people can afford to travel , that was once the province of the few , is now open to the majority . |