Example sentences of "have once be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Miss Cunnington cites a small house at Pamphill , Dorset , which may have once been a fourteenth-century hunting lodge . |
| 2 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 3 | The cliffs which had proved so difficult bordered a valley a mile or more across , the bed of what had once been a great , meandering river . |
| 4 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 5 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 6 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 7 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 8 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 9 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 10 | She had once been a famous athlete , and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence . |
| 11 | She explained that Gran had once been a famous singer and that she played the organ and was teaching Oliver to sing . |
| 12 | What had once been a pleasant Saturday afternoon 's entertainment was fast becoming a greedy , unskilled exercise to satisfy the demands of the uninitiated . |
| 13 | Lonrho 's chief executive , Mr Tiny Rowland , had once been a close business associate of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed , and the sulphurous mood at Lonrho partly reflected a falling out of old sparring partners . |
| 14 | He was a tall man — not quite as tall as Tom Russell , but still over six feet — with slightly thinning hair that had once been a dark brown but was now streaked with grey . |
| 15 | Joseph Maloney , secretary of the local angling association , said at the time that earlier , less serious pollution caused by Mogul had killed all fish life in what had once been a good trout and salmon river . |
| 16 | The glade where the ghost orchids grew amid the crumbling remains of what had once been a Roman villa was as cool as the church , and an unmistakable smell of summer blossoms mingled with the lush green growth of the wood . |
| 17 | Of this fine vessel the Maurice , also from Rotterdam , had once been a poor relation . |
| 18 | Then , after Mr Dalglish had shocked the soccer world by resigning in the middle of last season , Mr Moran left the boot room to steady the ship , until Graeme Souness was free to leave Glasgow Rangers and return to Liverpool , where he had once been a key player . |
| 19 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 20 | Esther shook her head , oblivious of the stray wisp of hair that fanned to and fro across her forehead ; hair that had once been a soft shade of brown , but which now was streaked iron grey . |
| 21 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 22 | Caldas had once been a favourite family haunt , she recalled wistfully , and had the local bus service not meandered into every far-flung hamlet on its way and taken forever to make the journey she would have been back long ago . |
| 23 | It had once been a middle-of-the-road paper with a big circulation and had traditionally reflected the views , or prejudices , of its middle-of-the-road readers . |
| 24 | It was built about 16 B.C. and the fact that this area had once been a Greek colony probably accounts for its exceptionally fine detail and proportions . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that she had once been a Benedictine nun of the convent of Carrow , which was situated near the church where she eventually had her cell : to this day Benedictine nuns take the title ‘ Dame ’ , the honorary title of any woman of rank at this time . |
| 26 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |
| 27 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |
| 28 | No matter how he had changed — if indeed he had changed — that man had once been a sadistic brute . |
| 29 | They had obviously been converted from what had once been an elegant bedroom . |
| 30 | There had once been an outside staircase leading up to the flat roof but that , too , had collapsed . |