Example sentences of "[conj] once [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be echoed up on Stanley Hill Top , however , where once mighty Stanley United are chasing promotion from the Wearside League second division . |
| 2 | Where once disabled people would be represented in a state of sub-consciousness ( that is , portrayed as unaware of themselves and their situation ) , we are now witnessing a small current coming into circulation of ‘ positive ’ images of the grinning disabled . |
| 3 | At the end of such evenings he found his own bed alone , walking through blackened courts where once Saracen climbers had run with fire among the poisoned and the dying . |
| 4 | Where once Tory MPs were made at Eton , now they are graduates of home counties motels . |
| 5 | The chalets on the lower ground nearest the beach were liable to flood and more than once young children had to be lifted from their beds in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | Roman ran a hand through his hair , a thing he had done more than once this morning if its state was anything to go by . |
| 7 | The human resources director of a large UK wines and spirits business also suggested that once total costs were taken into account , it could be argued that headhunters were not necessarily more expensive than using home-grown methods . |
| 8 | X-ray appearances and function are now both markedly improved despite the fact that it is generally believed that once joint cartilage ( the substance lining the joint space ) has been destroyed it can never be regenerated . |
| 9 | We can now see clearly why it is that once great state dominations appear which have the means to minutely command and control the lives of their citizens , those citizens can relieve themselves of the discomfiting need to exercise personal self-restraint or economic forethought for the simple and adequate reason that the state now exercises these ungratifying functions for them . |
| 10 | Everyone binges on food from time to time , particularly at Christmas and holiday periods , but you will find that once aerobic walking becomes an enjoyable habit , it will be easy to walk away those excess pounds any time you need to . |
| 11 | Russian sources have recently been making it clear that once current investment projects are up and running Cuba will get little more direct financial assistance . |
| 12 | One of the major costs of implementing new technology was the need to train for new skills , but Ms Edwards found that once new technology was adopted it was often under-used or misapplied because of the lack of expertise and investment . |
| 13 | ‘ But we knew that once one player took the step others would follow and that 's what has happened . ’ |
| 14 | The inference to be drawn from the first part of his letter is that once Roman Catholics are in a voting majority they will automatically vote for a United Ireland . |
| 15 | He argued that once conscious control of production is established at the macro level , the result of this production loses its commodity characteristic . |
| 16 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 17 | Although Beveridge argued that once older people had worked a full course and fulfilled ‘ the obligation of service ’ they were to receive ‘ an adequate income to maintain them ’ , this has never been the case in practice . |
| 18 | Irrespective of the merit of these particular observations ( and indeed of this particular poem ) , it is clear that once formal patterns of equivalence are connected to relations of meaning , as they are here , they become a good deal more interesting . |
| 19 | He points out that once fashionable products like royal jelly are now declining at the rate of 40% a year . |
| 20 | Eliot stressed that his own opinion was that once these abstractions had developed in the course of several generations within a civilization they required either renewal or else replacement . |
| 21 | An improvement on this basic design was to use a lightweight but rigid rotating rod on which to mount the magnet and mirror , and attach a coil spring at one end , so that once any change in potential difference had been registered the mirror would swing back to its original position . |
| 22 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 23 | It does this by demonstrating that once pragmatic implications of the sort we shall call implicature are taken into account , the apparently radical differences between logic and natural language seem to fade away . |
| 24 | We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move . |
| 25 | ‘ Ecstasy hinted at how powerful the mind could be , and once first gear was mastered there was a second gear , and a third . |
| 26 | It would be too much to hope that , once ordinary people became governors and once ordinary parents became involved in what ( and why ) a school chooses to do , then the process of improvement and development would look after itself . |
| 27 | And once that decision was made , then I felt that there was sort of humane behaviour that was required . |
| 28 | And once one child in the street is offered a place , other parents naturally feel under some pressure to put their children into school too , for fear that they might fall behind educationally . |
| 29 | At St Davids , site of an early Christian community , is the graceful and once magnificent Bishop 's Palace , which stands next to the impressive cathedral . |
| 30 | And once this kind of polarization is set in motion , it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in which everyone who is not with us is against us . |