Example sentences of "upon [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copies ordered at a later date may cost £5.00 depending upon the time lapse between the registration of death and the date of the order . |
| 2 | The ‘ pulsating cusp ’ model uses the fact that the spectra of particles arriving at the ionosphere on a given field line depend upon the time elapsed since that field line was reconnected . |
| 3 | All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time . |
| 6 | Once upon a time another German government let Lenin cross another Germany in a sealed train on his way to Russia . |
| 7 | Once upon a time , this might have been 95 per cent . |
| 8 | MOSCOW — Once upon a time , in a previous journalistic incarnation , I worked at Westminster . |
| 9 | Once upon a time there was a man who thought he could be a dragon-master . |
| 10 | Once upon a time , long long ago and far far away , out in the dreamlands , there was another Margaret just like you . |
| 11 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 12 | Once upon a time , of course , when you craved new clothes , you had to save for them — a quaint custom almost as outdated as horsedrawn carriages and farthingales . |
| 13 | ONCE upon a time people indulged in the ages-old craft of telling stories to each other — but then television and video stepped in and took the words out of our mouths . |
| 14 | Once upon a time book-buying parents could rely on the classics to keep the kids quiet . |
| 15 | Once upon a time , if you were caught short , there would be a convenience at your disposal . |
| 16 | I 'd have done anything for you once upon a time . |
| 17 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ he had written . |
| 18 | ‘ Once upon a time , there was a boy called Nigel Charles Hughes . |
| 19 | ‘ Once upon a time , when Daddy was a little boy , he used to wake in the night and cry . |
| 20 | ( The Countess of Clancarty , rumoured to have been the Earl 's cook once upon a time , charged £2,000 for the service , and Lady St John of Bletso , whose provincial protégées were known as ‘ the Blets ’ , the same amount . ) |
| 21 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 22 | After the narrows at St Goar and the infamous Lorelei , the river opens out again and begins to look a little cleaner , as though it might even , once upon a time , have been blue . |
| 23 | It seems that once upon a time OS/2 was going to be the real version of Windows , but Microsoft changed its mind and decided to go it alone . |
| 24 | ONCE upon a time , a school trip meant a week under canvas in Wales or , if it was especially adventurous , a visit across the Channel . |
| 25 | Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering . |
| 26 | According to a Sumerian poet : ‘ Once upon a time there was no snake , there was no scorpion , / There was no hyena , there was no lion , / There was no wild dog , no wolf , / There was no fear , no terror , / Man had no rival . ’ |
| 27 | Once upon a time , there was waking , which was slow and painful , and then quite a long period , replete with chances and triumphs and defeats and risks , which sometimes , though not always , ended in lunch . |
| 28 | Once upon a time he had read a quite terrifying number of books and accumulated an equally terrifying number of opinions about them . |
| 29 | Once upon a time a few years ago it was realised that the costs of circuits from the Post Office to broadcast choral evensong ‘ live ’ easily outstripped the courtesy fees paid to the participants . |
| 30 | However , once upon a time the mathematician was a child too . |