Example sentences of "was once [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This attractive four-hundred-year-old listed building situated in a conservation area in the old town of Bridgnorth was once a Temperance hostel . |
| 2 | This was once a gold shop . |
| 3 | It was once a hunting lodge of the Kings of England . |
| 4 | What was once a budget exercise becomes an analysis of policy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was once a Hunt Saboteur and still has a dent in his buttocks to prove it . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As shopkeepers , it seems apt that Sue and Reg Bass 's house was once a village shop . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | This attractive country home dates back to the 16th century when it was once a farm labourer 's cottage . |
| 17 | The Theatre in Chipping Norton was once a Salvation Army Citadel , and now plays host to touring shows , panto , cabaret and films . |
| 18 | ‘ There was once a bumper sticker that read ‘ remember the good old days when air was clean and sex was dirty ? ’ |
| 19 | The line was once a mineral extraction route constructed mainly for coal mining in the area . |
| 20 | Like Mr Gorbachev , he was once a party apparatchik . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At their foot , on what was once the sea floor , lie nodules . |
| 23 | A plaque tells how it was once the wartime headquarters of 98 Squadron which operated Mitchells from Dunsfold . |
| 24 | Greenlands was once the family home of W H Smith of newsagent and bookshop fame . |
| 25 | Greenlands was once the family home of W H Smith ( of newsagent and bookshop fame ) . |
| 26 | Nor is it just the lawns and bungalows and supermarkets of what was once the Canal Zone that make up the fabric of a colonialism with which several European countries have been historically familiar . |
| 27 | Gloddfa Ganol and LLechwedd Slate Caverns , Blaenau Ffestiniog — Blaenau Ffestiniog — Blaenau Ffestiniog was once the slate capital of the world . |
| 28 | Osgood was once the star player of Mellor 's favourite team Chelsea . |
| 29 | Still dazed and confused , I wandered over the bare earth that was once the Ken Mentle Memorial Stand . |
| 30 | But even these clubs are influenced by major companies ; for example , Grumpas Eight , the club that invited English striker Gary Lineker , was once the soccer club of Toyota , whose rugby club has Japanese centre , Eiji Kutsuki . |