Example sentences of "be at once [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The words had to be carefully chosen so as to be at once simple and evocative .
2 Yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and forced to conform to wills which are not his own .
3 As Rousseau said , ‘ yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and conform to wills which are not his own ’ .
4 A woman can be at once lovely and loathsome , chaste and lecherous , Sacred Bride and Queen of Hell .
5 It will be at once obvious that a rotation has occurred , round an identifiable centre .
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