Example sentences of "is [prep] once a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 2 | 1 ( a ) Possession is at once a good , old-fashioned Victorian yarn and a post-modernist parody of the same . |
| 3 | The New Forest is at once a great national reserve of timber , a grazing ground for several thousand cattle and ponies owned by the Commoners , and a region for recreation and the enjoyment of scenery and wild life which , being open to the public , at large , has much of the character of a National park . |
| 4 | Another reason is that when processes are understood at the molecular level then there is at once a natural link to chemistry , a most powerful body of knowledge to advance further understanding . |
| 5 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |
| 6 | No. 4 is at once a much more serious work than its predecessors : its first movement blazes with a Scriabinesque passion , and the third movements , ‘ The Race of the Field Rats ’ is , but for the last page , a bravura study for left hand alone . |
| 7 | ‘ Joan , ’ he said , ‘ this meeting is at once a joy and a sorrow . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Go ! ’ , for example , is at once a sentence , a clause , a phrase , and a word . |
| 9 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 10 | In Amalgamemnon story-telling in the future tense is at once a reassertion of individual creativity and a counter-attack on the discourses of the media which ignore the fictionality of the material they present and the conventions which are at its source . |
| 11 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Cold Heaven ’ is at once a popular movie and a deeply serious film . |