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 .
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