Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] once been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 2 | The one which had once been the spare room she now occupied permanently . |
| 3 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 4 | Joseph Maloney , secretary of the local angling association , said at the time that earlier , less serious pollution caused by Mogul had killed all fish life in what had once been a good trout and salmon river . |
| 5 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 6 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 7 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 8 | The cliffs which had proved so difficult bordered a valley a mile or more across , the bed of what had once been a great , meandering river . |
| 9 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 10 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 11 | The glade where the ghost orchids grew amid the crumbling remains of what had once been a Roman villa was as cool as the church , and an unmistakable smell of summer blossoms mingled with the lush green growth of the wood . |
| 12 | What had once been a pleasant Saturday afternoon 's entertainment was fast becoming a greedy , unskilled exercise to satisfy the demands of the uninitiated . |
| 13 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |
| 14 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |
| 15 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 16 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 17 | They had obviously been converted from what had once been an elegant bedroom . |
| 18 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |
| 19 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 20 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |