Example sentences of "[coord] once [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Pickering , who farms at Hafod y Bwch , Rhosytyllen , just off the Wrexham by-pass , is chairman of the governing body of LLysfasi College of Agriculture , Ruthin , a former chairman of Denbighshire NFU and once served on the union 's ruling council in London . |
2 | Thus power comes with political longevity , and once appointed to a coveted committee , a Senator or Representative will be loathe to accept , let alone seek , reallocation to another with the more junior status that will ensue , unless the move is clearly likely to be politically beneficial in the medium-if not the short-term . |
3 | They seem almost magical in themselves and once incorporated in a story they are guaranteed to weave a web to catch and hold us . |
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 | 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 . |
6 | Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip . |
7 | The bill will receive a third reading , and once passed by the Commons will be debated by the Lords in much the same way . |