Example sentences of "be once [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN attempt to turn a building in which rocks were once crushed into a museum and restaurant has been scrapped . |
| 2 | Other farms that were once situated in the centre of the village have been displaced by extensive house building which began in the early 1960s and continues to the present day . |
| 3 | But what is striking is not so much the fact that Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer were , after all , persons of some intellectual stature , than that men who were once regarded as the Aristotles of the modern world have practically vanished from sight . |
| 4 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 5 | ‘ Push ’ , ‘ discipline ’ or ‘ dig in ’ came hissing forth , and were once followed with a hilarious bellow when Parke made an injudicious shot selection : ‘ brain' . |
| 6 | Is it true you were once locked into the vault under the church with Bruckner 's coffin ? |
| 7 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 8 | Lavender bags were not merely intended for perfuming household linen and blankets in the days of Elizabeth I — they acted as a deterrent to moths , fleas and other unwanted pests ; and the stems were once burnt as a fumigant in sick-rooms . |
| 9 | Inside the fence were six palm-frond houses identical to those which were once used in the old Abu Dhabi . |
| 10 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 11 | The spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyala have once , were once described as a sort of a spiritual from which people of past men , put together again . |
| 12 | This farming systems has proved self-sustainable for the past 2,000 years and has altered little except that summer ( wet season ) rice crops were once combined in the same fields with winter ( dry season ) legumes , whereas the winter crop is now wheat . |
| 13 | Nearby was an oldmanuscript describing how forty horses heads were once buried under the bar . |
| 14 | Until recently , it contained a wide group of fish of the kind known generally as haplochromines : that is , they were once classed in the single genus ( see p. 124 ) Haplochromis within the family Cichlidae , though they are now generally placed in several different genera . |
| 15 | The loos at Caernarvon Castle were once nominated for an award but , nice as they are , the place is n't exactly flush with conveniences — again , men get a better deal . |
| 16 | Moreover , if the validity of the envy motive is once accepted by a society , there is no limit to the sheer self-destruction which is possible , since no divestment of authority or privilege or difference is capable of neutralising envy : . |
| 17 | The features editor of a glossy magazine was once invited on a trip to the Caribbean . |
| 18 | I was once invited to a weekend conference of ‘ rural women ’ to give a workshop on astrology . |
| 19 | The idea that acquired characteristics or congenital injuries ( or calluses on the knees of camels , for example ) are passed on from father to offspring , was once taught by the Lamarckian school and is now discredited . |
| 20 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
| 21 | Unemployment , where a job was once regarded as a birth right , is 10.6 per cent and rising . |
| 22 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 23 | ( Tenure of this sort was once regarded as an exclusively late development ; but its roots are now thought to have been very old . ) |
| 24 | A balance between the things of this world and those of the next is represented in the scales to which the eyes are directed , an interpretation that was once confirmed by a quotation from Leviticus 19:36 inscribed on the frame : ‘ Let the balance be just and the weights equal ’ . |
| 25 | So the paradise that was once lost in the Cotswolds has been found by the spotlight . |
| 26 | The latter was once connected with the old ferry that crossed the Severn at this point . |
| 27 | This was once fitted to a range of IH tractors from 80–200hp , so Mr Tomlinson knew it would be strong enough to take the power from the engine . |
| 28 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |
| 29 | Similarly , I was once asked by an Anglican leader after a long description of the birth , struggle and then growth and conversions in our new community church , ‘ Yes but , when you celebrate the Eucharist : what do you wear ? ’ |
| 30 | I was once asked by an ex-Director General of the BBC to open a fête . |