Example sentences of "once [vb pp] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , I believe Eliot admired the thrillers of the prolific E. Phillips Oppenheim , who was published in the yellow-backed series to which he more than once referred as a possible source of inspiration . |
| 2 | Unemployment , where a job was once regarded as a birth right , is 10.6 per cent and rising . |
| 3 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 4 | In the Paris by-election , in the 13th ward , Michèle Barzach ( Minister-Delegate for Health and the Family in 1986-88 and once regarded as a protegé of Chirac ) trailed behind the official RPR candidate René Galy-Dejean by 26.56 per cent to 41.17 per cent on the first round . |
| 5 | VASECTOMY operations , once regarded as an irrevocable form of male sterilisation , are increasingly being reversed as more men remarry and change their minds about wanting children . |
| 6 | ‘ She could n't believe a man she had once regarded as an uncle figure could turn against her so viciously , ’ one of her closest friends says . |
| 7 | ( Tenure of this sort was once regarded as an exclusively late development ; but its roots are now thought to have been very old . ) |
| 8 | I have myself been welcomed as a local council surveyor come to look at houses in a slum area , and I had an assistant who was once received as a person who was trying to recruit voluntary social workers . |
| 9 | Once prized as a rarity by an elite of connoisseurs , it is now freely available through many garden centres , so we can all have a go at growing this most distinctive of shade-loving perennials . |
| 10 | It is an indication of the slow decline of central Spain that these provinces , once dismissed as a poor region , were now considered as a fortunate Spanish Switzerland where Homeric simplicity was relieved by a certain luxury in eating and drinking . |
| 11 | The Germans obliged but , once installed as an occupying force , dismissed the Rada and created their own puppet government . |
| 12 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 13 | Looking into her frightened eyes , he could n't help being reminded of a leveret he had once caught as a boy . |
| 14 | The Bank of England stepped into the currency markets three times as the pound continued its slide below 3 marks — once seen as a level which would attract critical support from the Government . |
| 15 | The cughtagh was once admired as a handsome and benevolent giant who distributed gifts to the needy folk in hill villages . |
| 16 | Other items include a ravishing account of ‘ Qui la voce ’ from Bellini 's Puritani done in 1960 , the end of Act 1 of Verdi 's La Traviata , the Bell Song from Delibes ' Lakme and a rare Donizetti aria once used as a substitute item in Lucia . |
| 17 | At the end of the street is the entrance to the Daliborka , a defensive tower of the 15C , once used as a prison . |
| 18 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 19 | The black liquid contains the spores and was once used as a cheap substitute for Indian ink . |
| 20 | Nitrous oxide , commonly known as laughing gas and once used as a dental anaesthetic , is a natural product of biological processes in soils and water but is also emitted to the atmosphere by fossil-fuel burning , soil disturbance , the application of nitrogen based fertilizers , biomass burning and animal and human wastes . |
| 21 | A deadly nerve poison , it was once used as an animal poison but is now banned on the grounds that it kills with extreme cruelty . |
| 22 | Yugoslavia 's worker-management was once offered as a model . |
| 23 | He is also a keen footballer and for the past 18 years has run the Johnstone United Boys Club , where Robert Hassan once played as a teenager . |
| 24 | Lavender bags were not merely intended for perfuming household linen and blankets in the days of Elizabeth I — they acted as a deterrent to moths , fleas and other unwanted pests ; and the stems were once burnt as a fumigant in sick-rooms . |
| 25 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 26 | The twelve were there , in the big room that had once served as a dining room in this grand old house . |
| 27 | The two favourites are Mr Arkady Volsky , once touted as a potential Prime Minister under Mikhail Gorbachev , and Mr Vladimir Shumeiko , deputy Speaker of Parliament and an interventionist Mr Gaidar has indicated he would tolerate . |
| 28 | It turned out that the encomium had little to do with these epics , but for his generous economic support of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute , where he had once worked as a lowly attendant . |
| 29 | Anna once worked as a secretary to Piggott 's wife Susan . |
| 30 | Writer 's block AMONG other jobs Kevin Wilkins , Darlington 's new residential writer , once worked as a toilet roll tester . |