Example sentences of "[vb pp] upon [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decisions will be voted upon at the later date . |
| 2 | In 1898 the Church Meeting resolved to draw up the membership list on the basis that ‘ those who wished to be regular communicants be voted upon at the Church Meeting ’ . |
| 3 | This gives the Board an opportunity to report to shareholders and to obtain their approval for resolutions that are voted upon at the Meeting . |
| 4 | It is important that the explanatory statement should remain accurate at the time at which it is voted upon at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 5 | The paper was to be voted upon by the board on May 4th . |
| 6 | The General Assembly condemned the invasion and asserted the rights of the East Timorese people to self-determination , but the matter has not been voted upon in the General Assembly since 1982 . |
| 7 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I know how desperately Wright wants to be looked upon as the natural replacement for Gary Lineker , and this is one of his problems . |
| 10 | Visitors are also transported back to 1905 and the ‘ International Tramway and Light Railway ’ trade show which was held in that year to show the range of equipment on offer to operators and would-be operators at a time when the electric tramcar was looked upon as the wonder of the age . |
| 11 | First , it implicitly and explicitly asserted that the aims of education and the content of the curriculum were legitimate matters for public discussion and could not be looked upon as the exclusive concern of professionals : |
| 12 | ‘ We are basically looked upon as the end of things , ’ says Richard Faulkner . |
| 13 | ‘ The constable in certain districts ’ , The Pall Mall Gazette ( 19 February 1901 ) observed , ‘ is apparently looked upon as the common enemy whom it is right to kick and beat whenever that can be done with safety . ’ |
| 14 | He therefore addressed the Congress as representative of both organisations ; The National Institute for the Deaf , although it is a comparatively new body , is looked upon as the premier organisation in Great Britain … |
| 15 | He was the sort of , liked to be looked upon as the local squire . |
| 16 | The actual nominal money holdings of consumers in the th market can by definition be looked upon as the economy-wide average quantity of money plus the deviation of the actual from the average . |
| 17 | ‘ He was looked upon as the younger brother in a family is . |
| 18 | Keegan accepted Newcastle would be looked upon as the weaker side but hoped it would be the springboard to success . |
| 19 | Always young women , they recline and modestly turn their faces into their arms which are raised around their heads , so that their graceful , elongated bodies are presented as objects to be looked upon without the discomfort of a confronting stare back into the viewer 's gaze . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is important to note that sexual violence , including rape , has a wider range of forms than is typically reported upon in the press or recognised as a crime . |
| 24 | It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This arrangement had been ‘ decided upon as the one which the Government can best justify to Parliament ’ . |
| 29 | The number of words to be searched is an heuristic decided upon by the user . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |