Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] once [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I write this the survivors are eight days old , and being fed Brineshrimp once a day , and powdered flake or powdered High Protein once a day . |
| 2 | For those who liked cleaning their buttons there was button polish and a British parade once a year on the King 's Birthday . |
| 3 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 4 | Soak your nails in warm olive oil once a week to keep them in good condition . |
| 5 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 6 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 7 | Most parents expect their children to be clean by the age of 2½ years , but 16 per cent of 3-year-olds still show signs of faecal incontinence once a week or more . |
| 8 | For unplanted Koi pools requiring a turnover of the entire volume once every two hours or so , Cyprio has introduced a range of pumps that can cope quite happily with solids of up to 10mm diameter . |
| 9 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
| 10 | One of the bonuses of being Magazine Editor is that you get a three minute Pastoral visit once a month . |
| 11 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 12 | Both sides would further cut stocks to " a very small fraction " of current arsenals over an eight-year period once a worldwide ban ( currently under negotiation at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva — see p. 37224 ) on the development , production , use and possession of chemical weapons had entered into force . |
| 13 | Never skip your conditioning routine and use an intensive remoisturiser once a week . |
| 14 | The consequences to any patient-nurse relationship once a nurse allowed that could be as disastrous , if more excusable , as when bullying took place the other way round . |
| 15 | Hair that 's been coloured with a permanent product will benefit from an intensive conditioner once a week . |
| 16 | With its younger sibling , the Edinburgh International Television Festival , the EIFF supplies a focus for the world of the moving image once a year . |
| 17 | Free activities : The local tourist offices provide a free guided walk once a week . |
| 18 | You may also find your hair benefits from an intensive re-moisturiser once a week . |
| 19 | Yet another method was to harness the fish , with a thin silk cord that unwound over a large pulley , actuating an electric relay once every revolution . |
| 20 | We had roast meat once a week on Sundays , served at noon on the dot , usually their own home-killed sheep or pork . |
| 21 | Lights are on 12 hours per day , I do a 20 per cent water change fortnightly and feed frozen food once a day . |
| 22 | Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week . |
| 23 | The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years . |
| 24 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 25 | Unscrew the spray arms and flush under hot running water once a week . |
| 26 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 27 | They produce a single calf once every 2 or 3 years . |
| 28 | And so we all had a close shave once a term . |
| 29 | He watered the jars with distilled water once a day and the mushrooms appeared after about a month ‘ if you were lucky ’ . |
| 30 | There was a cousin of the Westwards in England who would take the child , someone who would arrange Roman Catholic instruction once a week . |