Example sentences of "at once a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian painting may be at once a holy picture and a convincing representation of a woman tenderly cradling her son , seen in front of a north Italian landscape . |
| 2 | Her hand moved ahead of her lips , ablaze when she brushed the fine wiry hair between Lucy 's thighs , all at once a mapless explorer in a rich forest . |
| 3 | When I offer you champagne you laugh in a way that only you have , like a stream all at once a delighted cascade into this deep swirling pool of warm humour . |
| 4 | ‘ I have to pee , ’ said Lucy , all at once a child to be coaxed into the treat she wants . |
| 5 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 6 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 7 | 1 ( a ) Possession is at once a good , old-fashioned Victorian yarn and a post-modernist parody of the same . |
| 8 | This was at once a problem and a happy release . |
| 9 | All at once a single shaft of moonlight exploded through a high window and struck this disc , causing it to revolve . |
| 10 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 13 | Rudder also paints a picturesque scene in 1777 : ‘ On the curious travellers first approach it presents at once a very striking and respectable appearance , consisting of a number of well built houses , equal to a little town , lying very contiguous , but not joined together ’ . |
| 14 | Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans , when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted ‘ We are very sorry about that ; we hope no one was hurt . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Coleridge became almost at once a leader of Bristol 's vigorous and combative intellectual life , in which the radical sympathies of a prosperous nonconformist community confronted the conservatism of wealthy merchants and professional men . |
| 17 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 20 | The children chased them , and all at once a crowd below . |
| 21 | And all at once a strange sensation came over him . |
| 22 | ‘ Joan , ’ he said , ‘ this meeting is at once a joy and a sorrow . ’ |
| 23 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 24 | In this case he clearly decided that the sampo was at once a thing and an allegory , like the Silmarils : a jewel , bright , hypnotic , intrinsically valuable , but also the quintessence of the creative powers , provoking both good and evil , the maker 's personality itself . |
| 25 | Visitors to The Gallery are warmly invited to inspect a world-wide collection of modern and traditional craftsmanship , at Once A Tree . |
| 26 | Almost at once a telephone rang again . |
| 27 | Almost at once a rapid shrinkage of the arable area began . |
| 28 | None the less they were at once a part and a symptom of a great expansion of European wealth . |
| 29 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Go ! ’ , for example , is at once a sentence , a clause , a phrase , and a word . |