Example sentences of "[verb] upon [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as naturally as anything , Judith switched to Spanish and greatly impressed the customer as well as pressing upon him the need to provide proper facilities for his ladies . |
| 2 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 3 | At a very early age the Spencer children had impressed upon them the value of good manners , honesty and accepting people for what they are , not for their position in life . |
| 4 | The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced . |
| 5 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 6 | However , my Presidency has impressed upon me the Sea-Change in recent years of governmental policy as it affects University and College finances . |
| 7 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 8 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 10 | I did understand however that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of that nation of which the constitution is the organic law . |
| 11 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 12 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 13 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 14 | Given these kinds of powers , benefits and resources , it is interesting to speculate upon what the appropriate local authorities might have done during this period . |
| 15 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 16 | Both these versions of the expertise theory assure us that the special expertise of directors at once justifies conferring upon them the discretion to run the business and imposes a restraint on how they exercise that discretion . |
| 17 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 18 | In moments of mature reflection the farmer may pity the ‘ townie ’ — a pity based upon what the farmer regards as the dehumanized and alienating quality of life in the larger cities — but that genuine twinge of concern is easily swept aside by the nightmare of being ‘ invaded ’ , ‘ swamped ’ or ‘ overrun ’ by a ‘ mass ’ of ‘ ignorant ’ daytrippers and holidaymakers . |
| 19 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 20 | Minuchin 's description of the anorexic as one who takes upon herself the burden of familial conflicts and the internal conflicts of those around her indicates that the anorexic ‘ sees ’ what is going on within and among other people in a very special way . |
| 21 | An ‘ appropriate test ’ will mean one which suits the curriculum studied by the pupils in question ; but item difficulty does not depend upon what the pupils have studied so the whole idea of an appropriate test is nonsense — according to the Rasch model . |
| 22 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 23 | If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do ! |
| 24 | In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries . |
| 25 | She does not , apparently , test her spellings by saying them as they look , but imposes upon them the correct pronunciation . |
| 26 | However , Goody 's claims for the ‘ consequences ’ of literacy are couched in such a way that they do require it : he imposes upon himself the obligation to establish that the Greeks really did achieve the distinction of ‘ myth ’ from ‘ history ’ if his claims for literacy are to be credible . |
| 27 | The Police Force of London was very anti-Jewish : but special measures were taken by Sir Samuel Hoare to enforce upon them the dire necessity of pampering the Israelites . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you recall impressing upon me the importance of giving myself time to make sure — ’ |
| 29 | This may , or may not , be a technological handicap , depending upon what the material is meant to do . |
| 30 | The defendants knew that the actress was aged 34 and was of normal weight and appearance : the article had heaped upon her the kind of reckless insults which could not have reflected an honest opinion . |