Example sentences of "once [been] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 2 | The present name of Colonna del Verziere is new , the column having once been the column of the cross ' — after the statue of Christ holding an iron cross was added in the seventeenth-century — or ‘ of San Matroniano ’ . |
| 3 | Who in their right mind would avoid a road or a railway track simply because it had once been the scene of an accident ? |
| 4 | The Kurhotel was on the next block , a 1950s five-storey tower of glass and unpainted concrete that had once been the pride of East German architecture . |
| 5 | Just before dawn the sound of a voice singing came over the darkened expanse of what had once been the Residency compound from the direction of what had once been the Cutcherry . |
| 6 | She had two large rooms , and a kitchen and bathroom constructed from what had been a warren of smaller domestic offices ; her own front door had once been the tradesmen 's entrance . |
| 7 | The house , centrepiece of a great estate , had once been the home of a Maharajah . |
| 8 | Strangely enough the clothes shop had once been the home of Paul Morley who sat in residence in its previous existence as a secondhand book sellers . |
| 9 | At its most blatant , posts which had once been the preserve of dons from Oxford or Cambridge were now given to businessmen . |
| 10 | Joan looked with pity and distaste at the mess which had once been the rectory . |
| 11 | Seeing her there , Stephen had to remind himself — for nothing in her bearing hinted at it and no vestige of hand-some looks remained — that she had once been the mistress of Alfred Osborn Tace . |
| 12 | There was a bar selling alcoholic drinks and two milk bars , one at floor level , one in what had once been the balcony , and a huge multi-faceted glass ball which hung over the dance floor . |
| 13 | I presumed it had once been the school 's dinner ladies ' empire and there was still a stove and tea-making gear but not much else except a funny smell . |
| 14 | Toledo was of no military value to the Nationalist advance , but it had considerable religious , historic and emotional significance , for it was the seat of the head of the Catholic Church in Spain and had once been the hub of the Spanish empire . |
| 15 | Or what had once been the plain . |
| 16 | French doors led into a room that had once been the guests ' lounge , but was now converted into the dining-room . |
| 17 | She and the Archdeacon followed Yaxlee into what had once been the library . |
| 18 | The door led upstairs to what had once been the stableman 's rooms , and which now housed Ben . |
| 19 | The fact that he had once been the President of the Midlands Motor Traders ' Association , and was a director of Harry Greenway plc , was not considered to compensate sufficiently for Sir Ralph Howell . |
| 20 | Rachel drove to an old inn beside the canal that had once been the haunt of the bargees and their families who travelled the canals . |
| 21 | In the 1920s the enemy was Labour and the aim was to encourage the desertion of the middle and lower middle classes and the ‘ black-coated ’ workers who had once been the foot-soldiers of Liberalism . |
| 22 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 23 | On the high mantel shelf above what had once been the fireplace was a black and white photograph of a young man 's head . |
| 24 | The end of the rope was wound round a cleat high up on the wall above the door to what had once been the Science Lab . |
| 25 | It had once been the offices of a film company and inside we found a dozen Iraqi soldiers in battledress , claiming to be Palestinians , members of the Arab Liberation Front . |
| 26 | Just before dawn the sound of a voice singing came over the darkened expanse of what had once been the Residency compound from the direction of what had once been the Cutcherry . |
| 27 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 28 | Of the three floors and the basement , Carson had all of the ground level and what had once been the garage on the side of the house , now a second bedroom which was reached by a slightly awkward twisting passage which cut under the stairway . |
| 29 | The doors through into two of the biggest reception rooms had been folded back , and a false wall between them opened to reveal what had once been the ballroom and which now , for one night , was a ballroom again . |
| 30 | It was a rambling house and the Mollands lived in what had once been the servants ' quarters ; the vicar had the rest of the place to himself . |