Example sentences of "[noun] as it once " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
| 2 | Today the church is no longer ‘ active ’ in the village as it once was , and sadly the congregation rarely has more than 15 worshippers . |
| 3 | The old quarter is indeed a concentration of Swiss life as it once was . |
| 4 | ‘ Scottish medieval churches were intended first and foremost as the setting for elaborate sung services , and without some appreciation of the music of those services any mental reconstruction of the church as it once was is incomplete , ’ says Richard Fawcett , Principle Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 5 | But somehow the invitation no longer holds the same enticing mystery as it once did . |