Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] once [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Presumably the Regent had waited until almost darkness , so as to hide the Scots movements once across the river .
2 PORTAFERRY is featured in the first of the six-part series Once Upon A Place ( UTV , 7.00pm ) in which local people tell the story of their own area .
3 Some of these have n't missed the traditional dinner once during the last 20 years .
4 Another facoured delivery system , or vector , is adenovirus : this is a bit bigger , and enters the cell via specific receptors that seem to provide some protection from breakdown of the nucleic acid once inside the human cell .
5 The polling factor in cattle arises as a spontaneous mutation once in every 50,000 births anyway , so that there are always likely to be a few naturally polled cattle in any population .
6 Rather like the systems employed by general practitioners , there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods , with patients perhaps preferring the former system and being prepared to put up with a long delay once in the clinic to a worried wait of two or three days .
7 I had a long talk once with the very bright lady who accompanied him in his early days , a lady of charm and accomplishment and infinitely more mature than Niki was .
8 ‘ You should go to a good stylist once in a while and have that mane tamed ! ’
9 That dusty old painting on the wall could well be worth a small fortune once inside an auction house .
10 In an atmospheric kind of sequence like this , you should keep your shots fairly short , pulling back to a wider shot once in a while to provide extra visual variety and to re-establish the scene .
11 Did you know , by the way , that statistically a woman tries out a new partner once in every two thousand copulations ?
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