Example sentences of "be [prep] once a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere , Duncan and I have made an attempt to overcome these problems by putting forward a conceptual view of local politics which stresses the social relations involved , which highlights the importance of the locality , and which is based on the notion that local state institutions can be at once an agent of , and an obstacle to , central demands ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | None the less they were at once a part and a symptom of a great expansion of European wealth . |
| 3 | They are at once a replication of and a threat to the unitary governing structures of the society in which he lives . |
| 4 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Go ! ’ , for example , is at once a sentence , a clause , a phrase , and a word . |
| 6 | In Amalgamemnon story-telling in the future tense is at once a reassertion of individual creativity and a counter-attack on the discourses of the media which ignore the fictionality of the material they present and the conventions which are at its source . |
| 7 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |
| 8 | ‘ Joan , ’ he said , ‘ this meeting is at once a joy and a sorrow . ’ |
| 9 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The metaphysical construction of subjectivity is at once an admission and production of its disruptive potential , a disruption in and of the very terms of its construction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | This was at once a problem and a happy release . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Terry Castle suggests that for these poets the mirror was at once an emblem of the psyche and the symbol of an alternative world : ‘ … the mirror image both distilled a longing for purity and expressed a desire for escape … ’ |