Example sentences of "[verb] upon they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On day-to-day matters most ministers and departments ‘ maintain an arm's-length relationship ’ from the organization which they sponsor , although considerable pressure may be brought to bear upon them on ‘ broader policy and resource ’ matters ( Johnson , 1982 , p. 213 ) . |
| 2 | Many owls have such a perfect sense of hearing that they can locate and catch small creatures in the pitch dark , landing upon them with the claws correctly aligned to grasp them along the spine . |
| 3 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 4 | She , she , looks upon them as a thoroughly disposable commodity . |
| 5 | Landowners within the forest regarded the restraints imposed upon them as an arbitrary intrusion upon the rights of property which was contrary to natural law and justice . |
| 6 | In addition , the planners argue that they have a duty imposed upon them under recent Acts of Parliament to conserve the natural environment of Orkney . |
| 7 | The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes . |
| 8 | Also rejected has been the Elton Committee 's proposal that parents might have civil liability imposed upon them in respect of their children 's acts . |
| 9 | Babies do not enter this world suffering from anxiety ; it is a condition which is imposed upon them by other people — although not necessarily intentionally . |
| 10 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 11 | Because innkeepers are under specific duties imposed upon them by the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 and at common law , they in return have certain rights which they may exercise over and above those which proprietors who are not innkeepers may exercise . |
| 12 | Yet it is an objective standard which the directors themselves define , and not one that is imposed upon them by the courts , who regard it as illegitimate to substitute their own view of what constitutes the best interests of the company or the shareholders for that of the directors of the company . |
| 13 | It would have formalised the position that individuals can have rights and obligations imposed upon them by treaties to which they can not be parties . |
| 14 | On December 6 , 1918 , troops of the 9th Battalion B.W.I.R. , unable to contain their frustrations any longer , discarded the racist fetters imposed upon them by the War Office and violently attacked their superior officers , severely assaulting the unit commander in the process . |
| 15 | In fact , competition has been reduced , prices have rocketed , thousands of public house tenants have been forced out of the trade and thousands more have felt that they have no reasonable option other than to accept the terms being imposed upon them by the brewers and accept long leases at enormously increased rents , with full responsibility for repairs . |
| 16 | Miliband 's response to Poulantzas was that he goes too far in dismissing the composition of the state elite as of no account , and in suggesting that structural constraints are so compelling ‘ as to turn those who run the state into the merest functionaries and executants of policies imposed upon them by ‘ the system ’ ( Miliband 1983 , p. 32 ) . |
| 17 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 18 | Even where it was possible to draw up useful statistics , local officials were reluctant to forward information which might increase the demands made upon them by their superiors in St Petersburg . |
| 19 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 20 | The Statue of the Etook Ha'chllt he 'd bartered for in a little town called Slew , which was now , regrettably , a blasted spot , its citizens the victims of a purge visited upon them for the crime of a song , written in the dialect of their community , suggesting that the Autarch of Yzordderrex lacked testicles . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you sure they wo n't mind having a total stranger thrust upon them without as much as a by your leave ? ’ |
| 22 | Organisations sometimes have age discrimination thrust upon them by the vicissitudes of insurance . |
| 23 | Would they , could they , after the sudden heady freedom thrust upon them by war , ever go back to what they had been ? |
| 24 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 25 | Those forces that make agencies fail to generate change also make them slow to respond to changes that are thrust upon them from the outside . |
| 26 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 27 | They sat quietly in Jerusalem until the Spirit came upon them at Pentecost ; then they could not keep quiet about the mighty deeds of God . |
| 28 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 29 | Many look upon them as an opportunity to put training into practice , or as a means of getting their first introduction to the tasks that will face them should they be posted to Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | Observation suggests that young people are most at ease and most open with adults who treat them ‘ casually ’ and as equals , who do not indulge them , act in a condescending way , or look upon them as something ‘ special ’ . |