Example sentences of "once [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book makes one conscious of Eliot in the sarcophagus of his upper-class eminence ; of a sad face of clerical cut — once the face of a delightful shy child — bleakly sprouting from a sartorial apparatus that resembles the mourning clothes of a cabinet minister ; of a masterly poseur , an honoured invalid and recluse , of someone snobbish and sometimes selfish and inhumane , who sought relief in literature and in imitation , and who also embodied the opposite of these qualities . |
| 2 | But once the wind direction is known , it is easy . |
| 3 | Certainly , a low ‘ g ’ sensitive person is liable to become completely incapable of further thought once the aircraft pitches nose-down the first time . |
| 4 | In nightly theatrical TV rituals of social order and chaos , a stream of hero-policemen stand at the symbolic crossroads between peace and mayhem , and the detective and the chief officer now operate at the point where once the church and its priests declaimed on categories of good and evil and the resulting binary codes they produce . |
| 5 | It began to be a test — the test — of whether he could still live with himself once the months ( but probably it would be years ) of imprisonment were over . |
| 6 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 7 | But so do many things once the dust of composition has settled and the builder 's yard of notebooks and rejected drafts can be studied at leisure . |
| 8 | At once the two of them fall into a kind of trance . |
| 9 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 10 | When Ian Paisley calls the Pope ‘ the Antichrist ’ , he is not just picking a choice term of abuse from the Bible , but referring back to what was once the mainstream Protestant and Anglican belief that the papacy does play one of the most important parts in sacred history and the Romans are absolutely mistaken about which . |
| 11 | The dock strike failed because the transport workers did not have the strength to defend the labour monopoly enjoyed by registered dockers in a number of ports once the Government removed its statutory underpinning . |
| 12 | Between 200 and 300 East Germans were yesterday camped in the mudbath which was once the majestic garden of the West German mission . |
| 13 | In fact we will be shown extracts from Gloucester v Bath once the programme gets going : but that is not quite the same thing . |
| 14 | In both London and New York , the play has survived the departure of Pauline Collins , justifying for once the usually pretentious term of monodrama . |
| 15 | The special cards are expected to be phased out once the long-anticipated economic reforms begin . |
| 16 | In Djibouti I met 13 of them , once the leading professionals of Hargeisa ; doctors , teachers , businessmen and civil servants . |
| 17 | The Crown Prosecution Service will ‘ continue the fight ’ to get at least limited rights of audience in the Crown Court for its lawyers once the new advisory committee for legal education and conduct is set up under the Government 's White Paper plans for the legal profession , Fiona King , a recruitment specialist at the service said yesterday . |
| 18 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 19 | Nonetheless his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished . |
| 20 | Community policing was once the normal form of policing in the United Kingdom , but the increasingly bureaucratic and professional nature of policing unintentionally yet progressively separated the police from the community , leading to more anonymous and impersonal contacts between them ( see Ericson 1982 : 24 ) . |
| 21 | Though they would hate to admit it , the rock press was once the most important stepping-stone on the way from obscurity to celebrity . |
| 22 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 23 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 24 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 25 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 26 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 27 | Xavier de la Chapelle was quietly enjoying his first Paris show as the new boss of MVS , now called Venturi — once the name of the car . |
| 28 | The turbo engine 's pull is no better at very low revs , but once the boost gauge 's needle awakens , the 940 surges forward very satisfactorily . |
| 29 | Just south of Kirkstall Abbey is Armley Mills , once the world 's largest woolen mill . |
| 30 | Finally , British forces will be withdrawn once the territorial integrity of the island has been restored . |