Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leakages of saving , taxation , and imports will fall as income declines until once again total leakages equal total injections . |
| 2 | The result revivified at once this potentially most over familiar of works , pulling audiences into the tortured , erotic geometry that defines its central quartet . |
| 3 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 4 | iteration with A1 on an arbitrary column quickly leads to the result unc Further delation leads at once to unc which completes the solution . |
| 5 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 6 | As a boy at Halton I had devoured every book available on the exploits of the RFC in World War I and my mind went at once to the great deeds of Ball , Bishop , McCudden , Mannock — why not Mahaddie , I thought ? |
| 7 | The frequency of waking fell to once or twice a week by the final session |
| 8 | Mummy approves for once . |
| 9 | The philosopher Sartre believed that , in the act of love-making , the lover becomes at once subject and object — for she sees herself partly as the body desired by the lover . |
| 10 | For only on foot does one detect the subtle rise and fall of ground to which the earliest settlers were so sensitive , or alignments in the town scene that may throw light on some fundamental change of plan : or the names of streets and lanes that set the mind working at once . |
| 11 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 12 | The response came at once . |
| 13 | Tory asked at once . |
| 14 | She was too confused by this sudden attacking question to see at once where it was leading . |
| 15 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |
| 16 | The rest made Malta where on landing one aircraft 's engine stopped at once as all its fuel had gone . |
| 17 | Work began at once to restock the fishery and restore the lodge and collapsed cottages on the estate . |
| 18 | Telecom will use only two at first but each pair can carry 2000 telephone calls at once . |
| 19 | The telephone rang at once . |
| 20 | The option of allowing the appeal , with the result that the child moves at once to open accommodation , is not one that was seriously pressed upon me by Mr. Wildblood , for whose skilful and moderate submissions I am grateful . |
| 21 | There was no kissing yet , though Boy did at once lay his head on O's shoulder . |
| 22 | Although this is convenient for busy human owners , it is too much for the cat to eat at once , unless it is starving — which is rarely the case with well-loved family pets . |
| 23 | Roots had split the ground in places , and the thickest of these jarred the Toyota so hard that Diane had an uneasy vision of the entire truck falling apart as every spot-weld gave at once , leaving her sitting in the driver 's seat with the steering wheel in her hands and nothing but open air all around . |
| 24 | Sometimes the behaviours to be learned are too complicated for the child to attain at once . |
| 25 | If the sale is abandoned , they still collect their fee , and their responsibility ends at once . |
| 26 | But day two saw the record broken at once . |
| 27 | My kind aunty knew at once what she meant , but first she would invite Lucy to choose a sweet from the box on the counter . |
| 28 | The bearer plunged at once into the warren of tiny streets , alleyways and passages between stalls that made up the area loosely known as the Bazaars . |
| 29 | Illumination of the social dimension of the revolution has at once encouraged and been complemented by the work of revisionist economic and political historians . |
| 30 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |