Example sentences of "once upon a time " in BNC.
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61 | Once upon a time there was in the UK a Director of Flight Safety , but this office has been abolished . |
62 | Once upon a time the only crime in this neck of the woods was domestic . |
63 | ONCE upon a time , the enemies of South-East Asia 's environment were overpopulation and poverty , but now prosperity must also be considered a foe . |
64 | Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health . |
65 | Once upon a time it could take several hours to install a network interface card . |
66 | Once upon a time when Intel released the 80286 , everyone wanted to make a 286-compatible PC , including Ericsson . |
67 | ONCE UPON a time , the government of Norway promised that it would not only protect the wolf as an endangered species , but even maintain a breeding population of the beast . |
68 | ‘ Grass roots ’ writes : ‘ Once upon a time , social services and the Japanese decided to have a competitive boat race on the river Thames . |
69 | ONCE upon a time , the British used to boast of the battles they had won — Agincourt , Trafalgar and Waterloo ( with less justice ) for example . |
70 | Predictably , Irish Terence Adair believes that ‘ if steamers come into vogue , they will do away with all the romance once upon a time supposed to belong to a naval life ’ but the Scotsman 's more practical view chimes in with Jack 's opinion . |
71 | Once upon a time you could get your pilot 's licence in him for £20 . |
72 | Once upon a time in Belfast there were bands like Stiff Little Fingers and Rudi . |
73 | Once upon a time , so the story runs in these characteristic responses to the summer riots of 1981 , violence and disorder were unknown in Britain . |
74 | Among modern believers , it is generally assumed that once upon a time there was a ‘ pure ’ form of Christianity preached by Paul , from which various ‘ deviations ’ — that is , ‘ heresies ’ — subsequently occurred . |
75 | ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back . |
76 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ Patsy began , ‘ in an old town , in an old street , there stood a very old 'ouse . ’ |
77 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ her brother began again , ‘ in an old town , in an old street , there stood a very old 'ouse , such a grand 'ouse , the sort of 'ouse you do not find nowadays … ’ |
78 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
79 | Once upon a time , say until the late 1960s , advertising and public relations were skills that called for good writing ability , a flair for commerce , art talents , a large degree of personal charm and verbal fluency , and a sociable nature . |
80 | Once upon a time this was the role everyone thought was the right and moral one , but the immense power of television to influence , and the rapid growth of communications , makes such definitions naive . |
81 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |
82 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
83 | Once upon a time , an angel came down to earth to test the charity of man . |
84 | Once upon a time . |
85 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ he would begin his lectures , ‘ in the remote marches and forests of Central Asia , near a lake called Issyk-Koul in the province of Semiriechinsk , there lived a small , pretty squirrel-like creature called the Marmot … ’ |
86 | ‘ Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep , and his name was Tom … ’ |
87 | Once upon a time |
88 | And the grand finale , the police acting as undertakers at the public burial of what , once upon a time , must have been a human relationship … |
89 | Formulaic expressions such as ‘ Once upon a time … and they lived happily ever after ’ can be used explicitly to mark the boundaries of a fragment . |
90 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |