Example sentences of "[adv] upon a [noun sg] [noun] " 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 magistrates had been dull , stolid figures , worthy but uninspiring , above all remote and anonymous . |
3 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |
4 | Once upon a time school teachers who climbed might take a favoured few pupils to the crags in the Lagonda or Alvis . |
5 | Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Once upon a time teams from Britain and all over the world were seen under the lights . |
8 | Once upon a time muezzins had had to climb such towers to call the people to prayer , the little round room at the top giving resonance , enlarging the human voice . |
9 | Once upon a time book-buying parents could rely on the classics to keep the kids quiet . |
10 | Once upon a time Shrove Tuesday was a holiday and there was feasting and fun in the streets before the quiet days of Lent . |
11 | Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health . |
12 | Once upon a time leather was rugged black cowhide ; utilitarian , fetishistically zippered and oozing macho anti-social symbolism . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ( There is evidence , though , that once upon a time Mars enjoyed running water . ) |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |