Example sentences of "once by a " in BNC.
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1 | What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish . |
2 | Every word in it has been typed four times ( once by our Paris correspondent , once by the French telex operator , once by a typist in our office , and finally by the Linotype operator at Index Printers ) . |
3 | There was a more brilliant flash of lightning followed almost at once by a great crash of thunder . |
4 | Possessed for once by a spirit of happy hilarity , the Indian crowd unhitched the horses from Mountbatten 's carriage and dragged it through the streets ; British officers were lifted shoulder high and cheered . |
5 | She was slashed across the throat once by a man with a Stanley knife believed to have been bought earlier at a stall . |
6 | ‘ City of Truro ’ was in light steam for the last time on the WSR as a static exhibit but upstaged for once by a host of traction and ploughing engines , vintage vehicles and other displays ! |
7 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
8 | May I suggest that the government abolish forthwith the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , and replace it at once by a Foundation for Gardeners , Handymen , Babysitters and the Arts . |
9 | Recently , synthesis of DNA containing 5-fluorocytosine residues at specific positions was independently accomplished by three different laboratories , once by a combination of standard oligonucleotide synthesis and site-specific enzymatic 5-FC incorporation ( 13 ) , twice by direct chemical synthesis of 2'-deoxyoligonucleotides containing 5-fluoro-2'-deoxycycytidine ( 14 , 15 ) . |
10 | Followed at once by a young man , dark-haired , sunburnt , wearing jeans and a T-shirt . |
11 | Eight rows of dots are printed at once by a single horizontal move of the print head across the paper . |
12 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |
13 | For example , a small boy was seen once by an educational psychologist at his parents ' request on a problem of which hand he should write with . |
14 | A decrease in PV has been curiously " rewarded " more than once by an increase in PS . |
15 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |