Example sentences of "[noun sg] be at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a fundamental ambiguity , however , in the protagonist 's relation to language : the levelling of meaning and the abolition of distinction is at once the device used by parody and the effect it attacks . |
| 2 | Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration . |
| 3 | The farmer 's prayer is to have good weather when his crop is at just the right stage to reap ; the ability to judge the state of a crop can come only with considerable experience . |
| 4 | This explains why the chapter on adult education is at once the most overtly political in its aims and the most transcendental in its language . |
| 5 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 6 | Items mentioned in the first section are at roughly the same level of difficulty as the chapter they accompany . |