Sentence examples for have once provided from inspiring English sources

Religion ("The Sea of Faith") might have once provided protection to the Christian world, but is now feared to be in recession.

All the islands of the Philippines are believed to have once provided habitat for dugongs, which were common until the 1970s.

Rosen had once provided Li's workers with special jackets, designed by Theory, to instill pride in the employees.

Eventually, Pip encounters Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie), an escaped convict to whom Pip as a child had once provided comfort.

Ticketmaster had a choice: it could either merge with the company that had once provided about 15 percent of its revenue, or compete against it.

EVEN the murals depicting the city's history were damaged by water that had seeped into the grand two-story room that had once provided a suitably impressive backdrop for officers of the National Newark and Essex Bank, then the state's largest.

Mr. Bart added that he had once provided Mr. Ovitz with a courtesy copy of an article that mentioned him -- he said he could not recall the date -- before it appeared on the newsstand but after it had been printed.

There will be just 79 homes for social rent out of a total of 2,535 homes, when the Heygate estate had once provided 1,100 structurally sound social housing units.

Mr. Azulay, who was head of the Rich Foundation in Israel, had already introduced himself to Mr. Foxman by telephone in November 1999, conveying his desire to renew the financial support that Mr. Rich had once provided the A.D.L. and promising to make up for lost years.

Surrounded by an uncaring present, rebuffed and threatened by the pitiless beauty in the flat beneath him and menaced by the dreams that had once provided solace, Herz's thoughts turn to a last chance - if not for love, then for company and support.

There was a half-burned bank barn, with arrow slits in the wall that had once provided ventilation; a smokehouse with a rotting door and a litter of stray kittens under the eaves; a two-story wagon shed with a long narrow corncrib and stalls that had once housed farm animals but were now strewn with old bottles, blankets, and twisted heaps of scrap metal and wire.