Example sentences of "[pers pn] is at once " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank . |
| 2 | But when we move from Einhard to the Christian ideal of rule in general , it is at once necessary to point out an important fact about Christianity : that its book , the Bible , consists of two Testaments , which are very different from each other in ethic . |
| 3 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 4 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 5 | Examining this structure with the eye of an engineer it is at once evident that very little of the stiffness of the carbon — carbon chain will be reflected in the macroscopic modulus of the plastic since the bonds which control the extension are not the covalent primary bonds but the secondary or van der Waal forces which attach the convolutions of the chain to each other . |
| 6 | It is at once clear from Fig. 2 that the long- and middle-wave cones of the primate retina do not form the regular , systematically alternating array that has sometimes been postulated . |
| 7 | It is at once an amusing and instructive exercise in the power of communicating . |
| 8 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 9 | The conglomerate is indeed becoming typical of technologically advanced cultural production in the advanced capitalist economies , and its theoretical importance , in this context , is that it is at once dominant in modern cultural production and yet , in its determining forms , radically separate from it ; its ‘ purpose ’ ( cf. page 67 ) now primarily elsewhere . |
| 10 | Enclosure is manifest in many forms ; it is at once the womb-like interior of airplane , the surface of the body , the frame of a window , the border between countries , and the boundary between discourses . |
| 11 | It is at once apparent that the McKinsey-GE matrix has much less definite measurements for its axes . |
| 12 | It is at once clear from Figure 5.2 that the PFM graph is a different shape from those of the three planets , which are broadly similar to each other . |
| 13 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 14 | ‘ It is at once the most absorbing and frustrating of professions , ’ he said . |
| 15 | It is at once an anthology of selected short stories and extracts of narratives often Afro-American women writers over 100 years ; a scholarly treatise and critique of their work ; and a highly politicized and womanist questioning of the reasons for their relative obscurity up until the recent ’ renaissance ’ in Black women 's writing . |
| 16 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 17 | It can be imagined that the soul of such a man will be laved always by waves from the ocean of his love ; he is at once carried away from all bitterness ; and enmity has no meaning for him . |
| 18 | His choice is wealth : he is at once the traditional hero of British fiction in search of a happy marriage and prosperity — Tom Jones or David Copperfield — and , in his brisk competitive zeal , the first fictional yuppie . |