Example sentences of "that once [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been precise on this because this is , if you look at your agenda papers , er quite detailed suggestion , one of the quotas , one of the options er in fact that we , the same about officer 's , erm nine twenty er the basis er , er is , is erm a very near to the that 's thirty five including capital , er we had to go fur further , obviously and , but we picked the Labour figure er and I wonder a little because the advice we have is that once we go over nine twenty places become much more erm , unfortunately costly . |
| 2 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 3 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 4 | The trouble is , Masklin thought that once we got outside the Store we 'd all be digging and building and hunting and facing the future with strong chins and bright smiles . |
| 5 | I m I must confess I 'm one of these simple folk who thought that once we got the nineteen ninety one census figures through then it would it would all start into place . |
| 6 | Such is the frailty of most of our natures that once we take a toe off the straight and narrow we tend to slide off it altogether . |
| 7 | We found in the interviews that once we had got beyond some version of this public model of management , managers attempted to humanize this by drawing on metaphors from their own experience and inner resources . |
| 8 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 9 | It is not that once we know something we commit ourselves to it but that knowing something is itself a commitment . |
| 10 | Well , it , it might be that once we 've dealt , , once we have dealt and , and are dealing with the budget , it might be that we , we receive some , some papers erm , from the department for future social services reports . |
| 11 | And quite honestly if two give er a good references but I would I would have to address that once we decide |
| 12 | Clutching the certainty that once we flew , |
| 13 | We will examine each of these misconceptions in turn , so that once we have torn away these layers of misunderstanding we can get to the kernel of doubt and see not only its dangers but its value . |
| 14 | A utilitarian of this sort holds that once we have adopted a fundamentally utilitarian standpoint all specific ethical questions become factual and can be approached empirically . |
| 15 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 16 | His argument is that once we have cleared the debt we could buy a car with another loan . |
| 17 | ‘ The principle is that once we find we can do something that makes us feel good , we repeat it , ’ he explains . |
| 18 | One might object to this definition of free will on the grounds that once we find a complete unified theory we will be able to predict what people will do . |
| 19 | Erm do you have cases where the where the girls or same faces keep popping up or do you do you feel that once they 've been pulled in they it puts them off ? |
| 20 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 21 | Napier have said that once they get this course up and running there 's absolutely no reason why experienced people like us ca n't dip in and out for a one off |
| 22 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 23 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 24 | Equally , the management of British Coal once again have not honoured their undertakings , they promised me that once they had considered the Consultants ' Report into the reorganization , they would consult with us . |
| 25 | But I did n't realize that once they 'd said it like , you know , I just |
| 26 | Even before they closed the mine we knew that once they retired my husband we 'd have to move . |
| 27 | The trouble is that once they begin , they sometimes continue out of habit . |
| 28 | Many books of advice assure people that once they start communicating properly , all their troubles will be over . |
| 29 | Most people find that once they have owned one there is no other breed for them , ’ said Alicia . |
| 30 | The South American porcupines ( below , left ) may not look as impressive as the great crested species from Africa ( below , right ) but their quills are sharply barbed so that once they have entered a predator 's flesh they can not easily be removed . |