Example sentences of "[prep] once [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have cream a maximum of once a week . |
| 2 | The cleaning-lady comes once a day now , instead of once a week . |
| 3 | and then somebody else has it , so it 's sort of once a month or something it turns up and they have sort of an extensive thing on it , I think that 's the way it works . |
| 4 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 5 | For the planted aquarium the total tank volume should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and filtered gently , with no spraybars , aeration , or jetting effect . |
| 6 | Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence . |
| 7 | Well keep them in the house , and maybe once in a while , sort of once every two months , just put a couple of drops in maybe Saturday night or Sunday night . |
| 8 | instead of once every three months |
| 9 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 10 | Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble . |
| 11 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 12 | Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 14 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 15 | For once a Government minister should accept that ethics and accountability do still have some meaning in British democracy . ’ |
| 16 | if it 's here it 's not much point leaving it for once a year . |
| 17 | He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net . |
| 18 | By May the principle of change had been accepted as inevitable , for once an extension of the franchise had been proposed , it would be suicidal for the party to oppose it , and there was thus a need to concentrate on pressing detailed amendments , for example to protect the interests and representation of agriculture . |
| 19 | In both London and New York , the play has survived the departure of Pauline Collins , justifying for once the usually pretentious term of monodrama . |
| 20 | For once the economy was not to blame . |
| 21 | For once the cliche that racegoers wept openly was all too true , but these were tears of real sadness — though it was hardly fair to ‘ blame ’ her conqueror , who had won the race in dour style ( and afterwards took the Jockey Club Cup from his sole opponent Achilles before ending his racing career unplaced in the Prix du Conseil Municipal ) . |
| 22 | For once the major characters seem like flesh-and-blood creations , and the comedy has a surprising depth of emotion . |
| 23 | ‘ So for once the met forecast people got it right . |
| 24 | So for once the sort of comment John would make face to face with other collaborators is actually recorded . |
| 25 | The little room at the end of the paddock , where scores are received , became for once the centre of attraction . ’ |
| 26 | But for once the weather was fine , the place was right on the other side of the airfield on the edge of open country , so we wandered about a bit , picking wild flowers and so on , and on the way back in the truck who should we see approaching in the distance , on foot , but our old pal Flt Off Gregory . |
| 27 | FOR ONCE the Easter demonstrations organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have something concrete and immediate to oppose . |
| 28 | Jansons masterfully keeps the music 's internal momentum alive without any sense of undue haste , and although the allegro bustles energetically along , Jansons resists the temptation to tear Shostakovich 's occasionally violent texturing to shreds For once the Finale appears as a crowning inevitability , rather than merely a throw-away moto-perpetuo of staccato virtuosity . |
| 29 | Sometimes I have wondered if Elizabeth , for once the contrary of Jane Austen , had said to herself : ‘ I shall make a heroine whom no one but I shall dislike . ’ |
| 30 | The streets and bars were deserted , and for once the incessant noise and bustle had abated . |