Example sentences of "once they have been " in BNC.

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1 However , it appears that there is no way of reclaiming stolen objects once they have been traced , largely because the UK has never ratified the 1970 Unesco convention on prohibiting the illicit export of cultural property .
2 Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray .
3 Once they have been dropped , various factors would affect their survival until modern times .
4 Of course , you do need to monitor people once they have been given their tasks .
5 Seen in this light , management is an activity which only some people engage in , or as something which some people do to other people — once they have been chartered/qualified to do so .
6 Once they have been manufactured , the sperms are stored in the epididymis , which is a coiled tube attached to the side of the testis .
7 Interviewers must seek out , contact and interview their allotted sub-samples , and once they have been given their tasks they must work relatively independently .
8 The trick will be to distil these desirable attributes from the new arrangements and to discard the harmful elements ; once they have been shown to be so .
9 But this is overcome by the successive production series , which make it possible to incorporate improvements suggested by experience , once they have been fully thought out .
10 In addition , some prey behave in ways that enhance their conspicuousness once they have been spotted .
11 These thought processes can be brought into use at will once they have been transferred into faith in the Created God .
12 Water reed bundles are much smaller in diameter and can therefore be put straight on once they have been butted .
13 New stains may appear , but once they have been cleaned they have gone forever .
14 A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years .
15 Expanded metal arch kits , once they have been plastered over , present a smooth wall face , and can be wallpapered around fairly easily , but they do n't quite have the character of the moulded fibrous plaster .
16 Leaves are much hardier and will stand any amount of bad treatment , but having said that do n't try pressing damaged or nibbled leaves in the hope that they will look better once they have been pressed because they wo n't !
17 Young elder tree and ash tree leaves can also turn black sometimes once they have been pressed .
18 For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed .
19 You can also use the cold-seal film ( see pp. 130–1 ) to cover the fronts of notebooks , diaries , address books and photograph albums once they have been decorated with a pressed flower design .
20 Second , the contingent environmental events which may strengthen or weaken verbal responses are specified and an attempt should be made to identify those contingencies which will operate to maintain the target behaviours in the natural environment once they have been established through systematic teaching .
21 Second , it is possible to derive a single overall measure of test performance from all the subtest scores , once they have been converted to a common scale of measurement .
22 These are all fairly high in protein , so once they have been accepted , growth will be pretty rapid if fed twice daily until your fish is about six inches ( 15cms ) .
23 It is essential that parents understand that stickers can not be removed once they have been earned , no matter how badly behaved the child is .
24 As in the use of any chart of this type , parents must not remove stickers once they have been earned and no black marks should be given for wet beds .
25 Once they have been used , tennis balls are then generally ignored by the members .
26 Multiple choices are learned and any one of them can be followed — as for example incest versus outbreeding — but there is an innate predisposition to learn certain ones in preference to others , or else to choose them once they have been acquired .
27 It does not have to re-analyse characters once they have been identified , which helps to speed up the processing of long documents .
28 The lengths of cladding are nailed into place once they have been slotted into the ones below .
29 Once they have been picked out from an account as recognized as distinct by the participating informants , other material can be sorted into categories with respect to them .
30 Once they have been dated , though , their significance for the site where they were found still requires interpretation .
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