"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

once adverbio

verbo + once
Kolokacji: 762
once owned • once considered • once write • once describe • once belong • once house • once occupied • once remark • ...
once + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 61
once common • once popular • once famous • once daily • once great • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 18
(1) common, popular, familiar
Kolokacji: 3
(3) daily, weekly
Kolokacji: 2
(5) proud, full, high
Kolokacji: 3
(9) prosperous, thriving, lucky
Kolokacji: 3
(11) unthinkable, unimaginable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) young, human
Kolokacji: 2
(13) airborne, high-flying
Kolokacji: 2
(14) synonymous, able, safe, loyal
Kolokacji: 4
(15) vibrant, white
Kolokacji: 2
(17) ubiquitous, present
Kolokacji: 2
(18) taboo, sacrosanct
Kolokacji: 2
1. once taboo = kiedyś zakazany once taboo
2. once sacrosanct = kiedyś święty once sacrosanct
  • Foreign policy, once sacrosanct, has been attacked over the Government's hard-line stance against the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
  • The entire world, it seems, is dismantling the welfare state, privatizing the public sector, downsizing government, reducing subsidies and cutting social programs that were once sacrosanct.
  • Yet it's impossible to forget that mealtime was once sacrosanct, that life revolved around food and the family dinner table.
  • Since then, almost nothing once sacrosanct to the party leaders has been left untouched.
  • Indeed, last month animated slices of Pizza Hut pizza were flying over the once sacrosanct Yahoo home page.
  • But there were too many people present; the office, once sacrosanct, had miraculously become full of Popeek workers, policemen, secretaries, possibly some telefax reporters.
  • "To a large degree, we have to get away from the the idea of total respect for sovereignty that was once sacrosanct."
  • Or will it be Aleksei Kovalev again, or even the once sacrosanct Adam Graves?
  • Even the once sacrosanct Social Security system is being challenged.
  • In the process, almost nothing once sacrosanct to the Kabul rulers has been left untouched.
preposición + once
Kolokacji: 7
to once • of once • with once • in once • at once • ...

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