Example sentences of "[adv] once [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played only once for the Millers and was understudy to former Middlesbrough keeper Kelham O'Hanlon and current keeper Billy Mercer . |
| 2 | Only once during the dispute did I hear the woman worker 's point of view publicly debated . |
| 3 | The important changes in design were firstly to increase the number of judgments in the recognition phase in order to obtain better recognition data than was available for the previous studies , secondly , to use a much more varied selection of driving situations , and thirdly to show each location only once during the judgment phase of the experiment . |
| 4 | She had seen him only once during the past three years — two bleak weeks ago at the funeral , when her grief had been so great that she had barely registered his presence . |
| 5 | He spoke only once during the eight minute hearing , to say he understood the proceedings . |
| 6 | Hodkinson spoke only once during the hearing before magistrates at Bootle near Liverpool , giving his address as Beattock Close , Melling , Merseyside . |
| 7 | Emburey has played only once during the past month , bowling 20 overs for 53 runs — but no wickets — against the Rest of India at Vishakhapatnam . |
| 8 | The fifth yacht to arrive in the space of eight hours , Rhone Poulenc , carried a crewman who 'd spoken to his family in Gloucester only once on the whole trip . |
| 9 | Only once before the twentieth century was Japan threatened with invasion ; the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 128I were repelled with the aid of natural forces , when the original kamikaze ( divine wind ) annihilated much of the invasion fleet . |
| 10 | Nowadays however she is as forgotten as James Gore- Dillon , the Anglo-Irish playwright contemporary of W.B. Yeats , whose lone play , ‘ In The Shadow Of The Gunman 's Glen ’ , was rehearsed only once by the West Of Ireland Players in a shed in Swinford in 1910 . |
| 11 | It 's only once round the track is n't it ? |
| 12 | Only once in the century did they fail to return a Bridgewater candidate to Parliament . |
| 13 | This is why filters are mentioned only once in the draft code of practice for very low frequency ( VLF ) signalling , published last January by the Association of Control Manufacturers ( TACMA ) . |
| 14 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 15 | Since Allison took over from Dennis Rofe , who walked out of the club refusing to work with Big Mal , Rovers have lost only once in the league and achieved three victories and a draw . |
| 16 | Hire purchase and bank or finance company loans , if used , are most likely to be used only once in the year — but for relatively large sums . |
| 17 | This is a correct result : semantically speaking , the element ‘ plural ’ occurs only once in the phrase those books . |
| 18 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 19 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 20 | Probability of life on a randomly selected planet if life arose only once in the universe . |
| 21 | Woodforde , who dropped his serve only once in the match , served for the tie , and wrapped it up when Reneberg hit a backhand drive well over the baseline . |
| 22 | Evidence for this is so freely available even within a single language that it may be overlooked ; a random pair of examples from English , one abstract , one " concrete " , would be those in ( 40 ) and ( 41 ) , each showing the same notion present twice but only once in the guise of a noun : ( 40 ) the male ape has amazing strength the male ape is amazingly strong ( 41 ) Steve 's scarf was greasy there was grease on Steve 's scarf The question is not essentially affected by the need to enter certain caveats related to the superficial grammar of the language concerned ; thus in English , unlike for example Russian or Latin , there are relatively few nouns which can instantiate an entity without some article or other determiner playing a supporting part . |
| 23 | Genmic DNA from an unstable transformant was digested with Cla I which cuts only once in the plasmid ( Fig. 1 ) , treated with T 4 DNA polymerase and self ligated to circularize plasmid DNA . |
| 24 | The ones shown are only the simplest ; each winds only once around the z-axis when projected on to the x-y plane . |
| 25 | ‘ I can always remember once , the head footman coming in once for the tea-tray . |
| 26 | Once I 've filled it in once in the book |
| 27 | So once in the system , careful monitoring will be required and this will of course lead to higher accountancy fees . |
| 28 | but they only go over once in the Grand National . |
| 29 | NOT once in the 19-year life of France 's modern Socialist party had a party congress ended without a piece of paper to carry away . |
| 30 | He did not raise his head as she came into the room , and not once in the short interview which followed did he look at her . |