Example sentences of "[be] once [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They position their pylons anywhere they choose and act as though they were still the strategic industry that they were once defined as . |
| 2 | I am afraid there are segments of the left who are especially envious of its capacity to animate the groups which were once regarded as their traditional supporters . |
| 3 | But what is striking is not so much the fact that Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer were , after all , persons of some intellectual stature , than that men who were once regarded as the Aristotles of the modern world have practically vanished from sight . |
| 4 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 5 | Dr. Corrigan suggests that ‘ by the time the World Health Organisation have listed and checked all the herbs which could be used , doctors may find themselves prescribing herbs which were once dismissed as old wives ' tales ’ . |
| 6 | Lavender bags were not merely intended for perfuming household linen and blankets in the days of Elizabeth I — they acted as a deterrent to moths , fleas and other unwanted pests ; and the stems were once burnt as a fumigant in sick-rooms . |
| 7 | The spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyala have once , were once described as a sort of a spiritual from which people of past men , put together again . |
| 8 | The aliphatic acids were once known as formic , acetic , propionic , butyric , pentanoic , hexanoic etc , but today they are more systematically named after the hydrocarbon with the same number of carbon atoms — ie methanoic , ethanoic , propanoic , butanoic etc . |
| 9 | Ampullaria were once known as Infusoria Snails , and kept as a source of fry food . |
| 10 | What was once seen as foliage and parts of branches is now seen as a human face . |
| 11 | Unemployment , where a job was once regarded as a birth right , is 10.6 per cent and rising . |
| 12 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 13 | ( Tenure of this sort was once regarded as an exclusively late development ; but its roots are now thought to have been very old . ) |
| 14 | I have myself been welcomed as a local council surveyor come to look at houses in a slum area , and I had an assistant who was once received as a person who was trying to recruit voluntary social workers . |
| 15 | Our present VAT rate , at 15% , is lower than in many countries : As part of a general restructuring , it could rise to 25% , the level that was once adopted as part of a two-tier system . |
| 16 | A deadly nerve poison , it was once used as an animal poison but is now banned on the grounds that it kills with extreme cruelty . |
| 17 | Also among Evershed 's finds was a vessel with pottery bits stuck back on using an adhesive containing betulin — a major component of silver birch trees — indicating that birch bark tar was once used as glue . |
| 18 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 19 | The black liquid contains the spores and was once used as a cheap substitute for Indian ink . |
| 20 | It was once used as storage space and curator of European Glass , Ceramics and Furniture says the idea is to provide a straightforward display of things which the public would enjoy looking at . |
| 21 | Juno was the guardian of the home and with the title ‘ Regina ’ was once lauded as the Queen and Mother of all Rome . |
| 22 | The composer Edward Elgar was once hailed as England 's answer to Beethoven . |
| 23 | The cughtagh was once admired as a handsome and benevolent giant who distributed gifts to the needy folk in hill villages . |
| 24 | This was once known as San Carlo 's Stable because of the archbishop 's mules were kept on the ground floor , the horses of the higher clergy on the first floor and hay for the animals on the upper floor . |
| 25 | MIRESIDE ( North facing ) was once known as ‘ The Castle ’ . |
| 26 | Little Leven was once known as Lleven , a name meaning ‘ smooth ’ or ‘ level ’ a description reasonably applicable to this area . |
| 27 | The former Maesteg coach is best known for his work at what was once known as Cardiff College of Education whose former student include Lyn ‘ the Leap ’ Davies , Gareth Edwards and John Bevan and more recently , John Devereux and Tony Copsey . |
| 28 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 29 | This fertile region , hollowed out and enriched so far as the soil is concerned by glaciation , was once known as the Pays tea Quatre Vallées , and Arreau was its capital , being another of the small centres which flourished in the years when the trans-Pyrenean trade with Spain was at its height . |
| 30 | Botswana was once known as Bechuanaland . |