Example sentences of "have once " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he returns to the town , he is arrested , but is set free by Ferdinand , an African promoted from the bush whose patron he has once been . |
| 2 | But the shooting has once more raised Armenian passions to boiling point . |
| 3 | It looks like the shop door has once more closed in his face . |
| 4 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 5 | THAT self-preserver extraordinary , Saddam Hussein , has once again shown that he knows when and how to cut his losses . |
| 6 | Under the Adoption Act 1976 , a marriage between a child and one who has once adopted it is prohibited , but not a marriage between the adoptee and one of the adopter 's own children . |
| 7 | The Tories can then expect to be returned within a couple of years , by an England — Disraeli did not mention Scotland or Wales — which has once again proved it does not love coalitions . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , those of us deprived of information struggle on as best we can to make sense of a technological world which — despite Francis Bacon 's promise that modern science would make man ‘ the master and possessor of nature ’ — has once again amazed us with its vulnerability . |
| 9 | The stormy relationship with the label has once again been calmed and the band begin recording their fourth album , and a new single , due for release in 1985 , this week . |
| 10 | THE WORLD Health Organisation has once again turned down an application from the Council for Infant Formula Companies ( ICIFI ) to affiliate to the Geneva-based organisation . |
| 11 | It is as if humanity has once more been motivated by its instinctive awareness that its ‘ god ’ was not entirely satisfactory , and as a reaction against the exclusiveness of the male Christ , the female Mary has been taken in an effort to correct an imbalance which represented a completely unacceptable division of the human race . |
| 12 | Mr Keith ‘ Cheggers ’ Chegwin , the televisionist non-pareil who not too long ago spent ‘ several weeks ’ in a clinic being treated for ‘ stress ’ , has once again had to seek medical treatment . |
| 13 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 14 | She was wonderfully kind and maternal to me , as she has once or twice been before . |
| 15 | THE Princess of Wales has once more caused disquiet among fashion commentators by sticking to her own rules . |
| 16 | THE CAUSE hamper campaign this Christmas has once again been a great success , thanks to the generosity of so many people in our diocese . |
| 17 | Now the Russian Revolution has once again given you the chance to take the initiative yourselves . |
| 18 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 19 | The pond has once been treated for White Spot , which occurred on six newly-purchased fish , but no other chemicals have been necessary . |
| 20 | But despite Mick 'n' Keef 'n' more besides , and playing an important role in shaping Britain 's nascent youth culture , it is but recently that Reading has once again become the only place for any self-respecting hep cat to pitch a tent during late August . |
| 21 | This is easy for one who sees , since he already possesses a picture of the surface of his own body ; and , on this account , he now , by means of the unchanging local sign , even in the dark , translates each stimulus which he has once seen act on a definite place , to the same place in this picture of the body which is mentally presented before him . ’ |
| 22 | In his seven years as a playing member of the team , Bates has twice helped Britain gain promotion to the World Group , in 1985 and again last year , and has once , in 1987 , had the disappointment of being relegated . |
| 23 | Indeed , if it was not clear before she went to Australia , it must have been before she left , that only when she has once more played in The Championships — and preferably won the title — will people be ready to forgive and forget . |
| 24 | The new novel , unlike the fictions of Tolkien and Lewis , is stubbornly secular , but with an ear cocked to the supernatural ; it is no more anti-religious , that is to say , than Philip Larkin 's poem ‘ Church Going ’ , which intones sympathetically the values of an empty place where the dead lie buried and where prayer has once been valid . |
| 25 | As the Elf host is assembled for a suicidal attack on Karaz-a-Karak news reaches them that the Witch King has once again invaded Ulthuan . |
| 26 | Sir , — The Chancellor 's proposal to add VAT to domestic fuel bills has once again set alarm bells ringing for pensioners and others on low incomes . |
| 27 | In a bizarre case that has once more focused attention on the accountability of art restorers , a United States Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments on a decision that , for now , requires an American city to pay more than half-a-million dollars for restoration work on a city-owned mural which that city never contracted to restore . |
| 28 | All that has once lived clings tenaciously to life . |
| 29 | Each then acts as a template to which other simpler molecules become attached until each has once more become a double helix . |
| 30 | At present share levels , the company is a candidate for takeover ( Kingfisher ? ) , but failing that management has once again the task of rebuilding credibility . |