Example sentences of "once [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the personal relations of baboons lack the human quality shown by chimpanzees , their societal organization is at once recognizably similar to hominid structures . |
| 2 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 3 | Viola Machin , feeling herself once more subject to a process of diminution , said loftily : ‘ It will not be a small nest egg . ’ |
| 4 | Weary to her bones , and once more cold to the marrow , Theda stepped down and requested the guard to unstrap her portmanteau from the back . |
| 5 | The other features which are often claimed as defining characteristics are at once both subordinate to this and , on closer examination , clearly visible in many non-scientific enterprises . |
| 6 | When he was once again close to his own explosion , holding back for her to join him , she said , ‘ Stay . ’ |
| 7 | But this made the Department and ministers once again vulnerable to charges of abdicating their responsibilities for financial and policy goals . |
| 8 | The organisers are once again grateful to Fr for his hospitality and the parishioners who supplied endless cups of tea and coffee . |
| 9 | She was once very close to death , in March 1979 , when our then Ambassador to The Hague was shot dead at her side in the official car . |
| 10 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ This will surprise you very much , but you were once very kind to a dear friend of mine , and I 'm sure you will be interested to hear news of him . ’ |