Example sentences of "upon [art] time [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 2 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 3 | Once upon a time this may have been so . |
| 4 | Once upon a time this plasteel cavern with its ranks of mighty support pillars must have seemed spacious , voluminous , gargantuan . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once upon a time another German government let Lenin cross another Germany in a sealed train on his way to Russia . |