Example sentences of "what once [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Fulani 's and the NAP 's real agenda is most clearly evident in the slow , steady growth , over more than 20 years , of what once seemed an insignificant crackpot organisation . |
| 2 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 3 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 4 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 5 | ‘ Cab , sir ? ’ barked barbecued Bill the driver , raising the charred relic of what once had been his cap . |
| 6 | Only the labels will be left , he wrote , for those who come after to examine and try to decipher , as sarcophagi and empty tombs are examined by archaeologists to try and determine who and what once lay inside them . |
| 7 | Luxury-goods sales are falling precisely when lots of new competitors , attracted by what once looked like easy business , are jumping into the market . |
| 8 | That 's one trophy in 37 years , none in the last 19 ; hardly sufficient to warm the cockles of what once cared to call itself the hotbed of soccer . |
| 9 | What emerges from the space of humanism contradicts what once defined that space ; in this sense Fanon can be said to have followed the path of the perverse : a negation of the dominant is made from a trajectory that emerged from it — a deviation from , which is also , simultaneously , a contradiction of . |