Example sentences of "once a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's used once a fortnight for clay pigeon shoots . |
| 2 | Rhoda would open the tin and foil once a week or at least once a fortnight before Christmas to soak the cloth with more bourbon before resealing it . |
| 3 | Brimscombe Port was once a hive of activity but has now largely disappeared . |
| 4 | The old school serves as a village hall while the church institute , once a hive of activity , is little in demand . |
| 5 | The area around Brimscombe was once a hive of industry , with numerous mills . |
| 6 | Once a casualty of war itself , now occupied by the peace keepers . |
| 7 | Does the brain use all of this information , or does it work on a trigger basis so that , once a level of activity has been exceeded , the actual level is irrelevant ? |
| 8 | SHARES in the kitchens and bathroom group Spring Ram once a favourite with City investors , were suspended on the stock market early yesterday at the company 's request pending an announcement about its forthcoming results . |
| 9 | Once a plan of action has been worked out , then an audit can be made to ensure all requirements will be covered . |
| 10 | Twice stone broke off in his hand ; once a chunk of battlement fell and plunged to the ground . |
| 11 | Even those who dissent are required to act as if they agree once a course of action has been decided upon , and if there is blame , it is shared by all . ’ |
| 12 | Once a system of law accepts possession as a sufficient foundation for a claim for recovery of personal property it is faced with the question of how far the defendant should be allowed to raise the issue that a third party has a better right to the property than the plaintiff — the jus tertii . |
| 13 | And it is our judgment that you can and should pay at once a portion of Mistress Hussey 's dowry , so that her maintenance may be assured , and she may return to her father 's house from this court , as is her wish . |
| 14 | The only person in the house who did not appear excited was Grace Poole , who stayed in her room upstairs , coming down once a day for food and drink . |
| 15 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
| 16 | When Mandru was in residence , he commanded a performance at least once a day as part of his Ixmaritian devotions , which were rumoured to be half-hearted at best . |
| 17 | Indeed , in factories in San Salvador , as one woman trade unionist reported , the pill is available from vending machines and instructions for use merely state : " the pill should be taken once a day in order not to have more children " and conclude with the comforting advice " if you do n't feel well , there are other methods " . |
| 18 | The great majority of them participated in the sacrament only once a year at Easter , when they received the host ( or wafer ) but not the consecrated wine . |
| 19 | Moderators will normally visit centres once a year in order to agree final student grades for assessed areas of study . |
| 20 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 21 | Although not used more often than once a year in autumn , this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying ( breaking up and loosening the surface of ) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake . |
| 22 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you suggesting that Mike was once a member of Delta ? ’ |
| 24 | Penzance , once a centre of smuggling , is now very much a holiday resort . |
| 25 | KYOKUSHINKAI This style of karate , which means ‘ the way of ultimate truth ’ , was created by Masatatsu Oyama , who was once a student of Shotokan under Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 26 | Experienced credit managers will be well aware that once a pattern of payment is established , it is difficult to coax customers out of that pattern . |
| 27 | There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case . |
| 28 | The establishment is open but once a week at present and is then usually manned by a civilian worker . |
| 29 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 30 | ‘ When he first told me , I tried to understand him and agreed he could dress up once a week at home . |