Example sentences of "[adv] upon a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
2 | Once upon a time school teachers who climbed might take a favoured few pupils to the crags in the Lagonda or Alvis . |
3 | Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering . |
4 | Once upon a time book-buying parents could rely on the classics to keep the kids quiet . |
5 | Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health . |
6 | Once upon a time leather was rugged black cowhide ; utilitarian , fetishistically zippered and oozing macho anti-social symbolism . |
7 | As the law presently stands , it is open for a settlor to transfer assets overseas upon an accumulation trust for the benefit of his children without there being any UK tax liability on the income as it arises overseas . |