Example sentences of "once been [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole area was no more than ten or fifteen years old , straggling along either side of what had once been a country road and ending messily with the shell of an unfinished building of some indeterminate nature . |
| 2 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 3 | Someone had told them there was to be a memorial service for Evangeline Booth that evening in the Regent Hall , which had once been a skating rink . |
| 4 | As the Lada sped towards St Petersburg , the hostages were being moved into a spacious townhouse that was now empty and had once been a district governor 's home . |
| 5 | As Mungo hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets against the dank evening mist , Emily explained that this had once been a riding school . |
| 6 | Ceilings and floors dangled from what had once been a department store . |
| 7 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 8 | The end of the rope was wound round a cleat high up on the wall above the door to what had once been the Science Lab . |
| 9 | Just before dawn the sound of a voice singing came over the darkened expanse of what had once been the Residency compound from the direction of what had once been the Cutcherry . |
| 10 | Otherwise , if the weather was good , we would spend the rest of the day with our friends among the marble busts and statues in the romantic Giardino Pubblico , which had once been the Parco Ducale of Maria Luigia 's palace . |