Example sentences of "[conj] once it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 2 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 3 | But the virus that killed him is so lethal that once it 's in the lungs it kills one in three of its victims . |
| 4 | Moreover , continental experience of a national curriculum suggests that once it is in place , achieving change is extremely difficult . |
| 5 | The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant . |
| 6 | The maddening thing is that once it is realized that the environment is a mutually reactive system , it becomes extremely difficult to isolate and discuss specialized points in a simple way without at the same time being tempted to discuss every interaction and interrelationship which exists in the system . |
| 7 | The management should be aware that once it is known that a business is for sale , it is likely that it will be bought by someone , if not themselves . |
| 8 | But my fear is that once it is cleared , he will start spending on things he wants and my car will get forgotten . |
| 9 | A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat . |
| 10 | And once it 's ended All |
| 11 | Well , Gain has reportedly just snared a porting pact with IBM to move its software to the RS/6000 and once it 's ready IBM will apparently co-market the stuff worldwide especially to users with mission critical distributed applications . |
| 12 | And once it 's in there it prevents the gas from escaping . |
| 13 | It 's too much of a big show and once it 's over people forget it . ’ |
| 14 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 15 | So central government gets drawn in willy-nilly ; and once it is handing out money , it will want to have some say over how it is spent . |
| 16 | The bondholding may help the firm get its foot in the door to win the business ; and once it is inside , the firm will be tempted to propose a restructuring of the company 's debt in ways that will benefit its own holdings . |
| 17 | There is a creeping ratchet effect : capacity means something can be done and once it is being done it is expanded or generalised ; that in turn means there is need for more support ; in turn that support needs supporting , so creating more capacity , and the cycle repeats . |
| 18 | Once a Bill or a proposed measure requiring parliamentary approval enters the lists and it is realised that an environmental impact assessment must be produced , and once it is decided to commission an environmental impact assessment it becomes public property . |
| 19 | ‘ They have , you might say , short take off and landing , and once it is landed it can be made airborne again by simply taking one step back and tugging . |
| 20 | King Alfred brought it into his translation of Boethius too , to explain why divine Providence does not affect free will : ‘ What we call God 's fore-thought and his Providence ’ , he wrote , ‘ is while it is there in His mind , before it gets done , while it 's still being thought ; but once it 's done , then we call it wyrd . |
| 21 | But once it 's up and running , they may want to develop their own skills and expertise ’ . |
| 22 | Education is statutory , but once it is over such youngsters are legally entitled to nothing . |
| 23 | It may be soft and warm as you inhale it but once it is inside your body it becomes as hard and tough as the surface of that road . |
| 24 | There are manifest dangers in the way a relative norm is chosen , but once it is accepted that relative validity is all we can aim at these need not worry us unduly . |
| 25 | If this is not practical , you could try cooking a chicken to eat cold over several days ; but once it is cooked , divide it up into the meal portions you require , and place them in the freezer or refrigerator as appropriate . |
| 26 | But once it is formally rejected , the SWD could press for the money to be held in trust until the children are 18 . |
| 27 | u τ depends on the flow as a whole , but once it is specified , the structure of the wall region is specified . |
| 28 | What we see here then is that the channel is markedly stimulated to open , its open state probability increases , but once it is open , the level the current level which it passes , the amount of the number ions flowing through per unit time , is not significantly different from that er case in which the calcium was lower . |
| 29 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 30 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |