Example sentences of "[noun sg] at once [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 2 | After the failure of The Family Reunion his first instinct was to start work at once on a new play which would avoid the failures of the earlier one . |
| 3 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 4 | By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls . |
| 5 | She had to put up her umbrella at once against the rain . |
| 6 | On legal aid there is not clear recognition amongst the major commercial firms of the need to deploy much of the substantial funding that they provide in large measure for the profession in the defence at once of the legal aid scheme and of legal aid practitioners . |
| 7 | GUIL : ( Excitedly ) Out of the void , finally , a sound ; while on a boat ( admittedly ) outside the action ( admittedly ) the perfect and absolute silence of the wet lazy slap of water against water and the rolling creak of timber — breaks ; giving rise at once to the speculation or the assumption or the hope that something is about to happen ; a pipe is heard . |
| 8 | What is lost here is the sense of form as integral element , as the means , in fact , whereby a particular human need is met — ie is materially realised — in a way consonant at once with the levels of provision and " list of requirements " and with a certain way of life . |
| 9 | Craig made his way at once to the study , the desk was locked as he had expected . |
| 10 | AN ORGY of steam traction comes to Dorset on the weekend of September 19 and 20 with history being made as six locomotives steam at once during a special fund-raising Grand Steam Gala — the most locos ever seen in the Isle of Purbeck . |
| 11 | ( x ) Put the slide at once into a Coplin jar filled with the same fixative and leave for at least 20 min . |
| 12 | The former branch of this first dichotomy takes written language at once into a mode which speakers seldom use . |
| 13 | Colt knew his target at once from the photograph that he had been given . |