Example sentences of "[be] [prep] once [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fagg has put me temporarily in charge and , limited though my power may be , I intend to ensure that those under my care are for once treated like human beings . ’ |
| 2 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 3 | The Arup scheme held centre stage , but the public , whose views were for once solicited , showed a very definite preference for the Simpson plan . |
| 4 | The strategies adopted for the closures of Powick , Banstead and Exminster were at once puzzling in their diversity . |
| 5 | They were at once joined by the Bretons rising in rebellion against the King who had done much to limit their independence . |
| 6 | In the tea room their spirits were at once raised and depressed by the English-looking cakes , pots of jam and packets of tea in the showcases on the counter , but the dim interior , with its Kardomah-like decor , reassured and encouraged them . |
| 7 | Statues of the Shah and his father were torn to the ground ; newspapers with huge headlines " THE SHAH HAS GONE " were at once printed and distributed by the armload , to be enthusiastically seized and read . |
| 8 | His papers were at once sealed by order of the king ; and in the 1680s Colbert de Croissy built up a large working archive covering the years from 1660 onwards . |
| 9 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 10 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
| 11 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 12 | It suggested that " this rootless expatriate " be at once dropped from the jury of the Library of Congress . |
| 13 | This is the way you will be thinking , using this sequence : a murder is committed , the detective arrives , the question is at once asked , " Who might have done it ? " |
| 14 | The vigour and profundity of the Old Testament 's own challenge is at once realized when we recall how far the ruins of Jericho are from Eden , or from that remarkable declaration of faith in Genesis 1 , and how completely the smoke of its destruction hides the last of the promises given to Abraham in Genesis 12 . |
| 15 | This antidote is effective against the romantic-individualist myth , because , as a protégé of Lyell , the young Darwin of the Beagle is at once invested with all the intellectual and institutional context that that myth would suppress . |
| 16 | The right moment to begin , he wrote , is the moment when right and wrong are no longer an issue , it may even be the moment , he wrote , when the realization dawns and is at once accepted that another moment might have been equally valid , and when this no longer matters . |
| 17 | The child of a globe-trotting executive mother is looked after by a female nanny and so the positive image of women in outward-looking powerful jobs is at once cancelled . |
| 18 | The collector is at once confronted with a choice : shall he assemble his collection with only the binding in mind , or shall he pay regard to the contents of the book as well ? |
| 19 | It can be imagined that the soul of such a man will be laved always by waves from the ocean of his love ; he is at once carried away from all bitterness ; and enmity has no meaning for him . |
| 20 | My friend , whose ablutions are an elaborate , and to him , essential part of his pre-sermon warm up , was for once lost for words . |
| 21 | Entering St Jude 's Passage — her most direct approach to St Jude 's Square and the old market place which would lead her to Miss Dallam 's side of Frizingley — Cara was at once hemmed in by tall houses as sinister and insubstantial as shadows , tottering almost beneath a weight of sheer dilapidation and the load of displaced humanity they carried . |
| 22 | The renunciation of any attempt to tax was at once cause and symptom of the state 's demise . |
| 23 | He was at once ambushed by the Stannards . |
| 24 | And then when he died and she followed him so soon , you see , I was at once cut off from all example of domestic life between the sexes . |
| 25 | On removal of the mask … the face was at once seen … |
| 26 | Galileo came upon Ricci teaching the young pages about Euclid and was at once entranced . |
| 27 | If there was to be no viewing of the remains , the coffin was at once covered with plain or waxed cambric , glued and gimped into place . |
| 28 | When I had first read The Idea of a Christian Society , I was at once struck by the compatibility of some of Hardy 's remarks on the role and function of the Anglican Church with Eliot 's own views . |
| 29 | They were sent away in turn in 1927 and No. 17 was at once declared to be beyond economic repair . |
| 30 | It was at once filled and then the large room in the then Town Hall was taken . |