Example sentences of "[verb] upon by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper was to be voted upon by the board on May 4th . |
| 2 | Both had the broadly similar functions of recording , in different ways , payments into and out of the Exchequer of Receipt ; but from the middle of the sixteenth century the older office , the Clerkship of the Pells , was being encroached upon by the Writer of the Tallies . |
| 3 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Though if you should hear anything that might be — how shall I put this — um , useful I 'm sure your co-operation will be most favourably looked upon by the prison staff as a whole . |
| 5 | The nature of the cleavages identified and capitalized upon by the parties reflects the structure of the society although if certain cleavages are ignored by parties ( thereby ‘ organizing out ’ certain biases ) the party system need not faithfully represent all the divisions within a society . |
| 6 | Charles Dowd 's invention gleams dully in the half-gloom , trodden upon by the sandals and the bare feet of a people who , despite the name of their hotel , take little obvious pleasure or pride in knowing their unique status . |
| 7 | The very idea of the variable draws upon an analogy with the highly abstract structure of mathematics in which variables and constants are objects in a mathematical domain operated upon by the appropriate rules for manipulation . |
| 8 | As soon as these clarifications have been received , they will then be balloted upon by the members of both AIB Bank , Northern Ireland and First Trust Bank . |
| 9 | While neighbours need to contribute to some notional ‘ stock of common good ’ , so that they can draw on it should they become in need of help at some point in the future , they also wish not to be imposed upon by the needs of others . |
| 10 | The number of words to be searched is an heuristic decided upon by the user . |
| 11 | They lost no time in petitioning the Home Secretary ‘ complaining that their privileges had been infringed upon by the Charter granted to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and praying for relief ’ . |
| 12 | This good news has to be built upon by the direct and firm action set out in , this , the second Road Safety Plan for Lothian . |
| 13 | Free arachidonic acid is then acted upon by the system of microsomal enzymes known as prostaglandin synthetase which is composed of cyclo-oxygenase and peroxidase activities . |
| 14 | Fibrinogen : a substance present in blood plasma that is acted upon by the enzyme thrombin to produce the insoluble protein fibrin in the final stage of blood coagulation . |
| 15 | The specification recommended in the document which has been issued , and which was praised in Standing Committee , has been acted upon by the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 16 | As restated by Lord Oliver in Caparo v Dickman ( cited at 14.11.1 ) at 383H — 384B , the duty is as follows : ( 1 ) the advice must be required for a purpose , whether particularly specified or generally described , which is made known , either actually or inferentially , to the adviser when the advice is given ; ( 2 ) the adviser knows , either actually or inferentially , that the advice will be communicated to the " advisee " , either specifically or as a member of an ascertainable class , in order that it should be used by the advisee for that purpose ; ( 3 ) it is known , either actually or inferentially , that the advice so communicated is likely to be acted upon by the advisee for that purpose without further inquiry ; and ( 4 ) it is so acted upon by the advisee to his detriment . |
| 17 | As restated by Lord Oliver in Caparo v Dickman ( cited at 14.11.1 ) at 383H — 384B , the duty is as follows : ( 1 ) the advice must be required for a purpose , whether particularly specified or generally described , which is made known , either actually or inferentially , to the adviser when the advice is given ; ( 2 ) the adviser knows , either actually or inferentially , that the advice will be communicated to the " advisee " , either specifically or as a member of an ascertainable class , in order that it should be used by the advisee for that purpose ; ( 3 ) it is known , either actually or inferentially , that the advice so communicated is likely to be acted upon by the advisee for that purpose without further inquiry ; and ( 4 ) it is so acted upon by the advisee to his detriment . |
| 18 | Another agency may therefore apply for an EPO if it disagrees with the recommendation of the case conference or that recommendation has not been acted upon by the local authority . |
| 19 | There will still be required annual registration but this will be more of a check upon the existing state of the rolling register and will supply extra information that can be acted upon by the electoral returning officer . |
| 20 | Defeat for the Welsh All Blacks , particularly at the fortress that is The Gnoll , is a rare occurrence , hated by the players , frowned upon by the coaches and detested by the increasing army of fans who continue to pack the ground . |
| 21 | Frowned upon by the purist , the ‘ Irishman 's weeping standard ’ is similar to the ‘ Irishman 's cutting ’ , in which a basal cutting is taken with roots already attached . |
| 22 | But Malone could land in more hot water after publicly criticising ref Herbie Barr — an action frowned upon by the IFA . |
| 23 | This was a phenomenal period of renewal , embarked upon by the Conservatives and maintained with vigour by Labour . |
| 24 | Despite the uncertainties surrounding the future of the Kurds , the difficulties encountered in removing Iraq 's weapons of mass destruction and the anxiety provoked by the Bubiyan incident , most of the endeavours embarked upon by the UN in the crisis appear to have turned out reasonably well . |
| 25 | It seems probable that all of this could not have come about had not the superego emerged as a continuation of a trend of evolutionary development which had long since been embarked upon by the ego proper . |
| 26 | Another emotion which is somewhat elaborated upon by the Chewong is that expressed by the word chan which I translate as anger or angry . |
| 27 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 28 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 29 | One child volunteers to leave the room where she is to touch an article agreed upon by the other players . |
| 30 | Creditors holding priority claims , such as pre-petition wage claims , some customer claims , set-off claims and secured claims will be paid in full or as agreed upon by the parties , or otherwise remain outstanding ; it appears that the shares now traded on the American Stock Exchange will be essentially worthless . |