Example sentences of "[vb pp] upon [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to have landed away from the red paralysis , but as he looked around he could see the castle being encroached upon from all directions by the strange weed . |
| 2 | Under many circumstances this would be looked upon with some suspicion — giving rise to accusations of severe oligopoly or even near monopoly . |
| 3 | But how many know ‘ the reason why ’ Bishop Jonathon Trelawney became a folk hero , although looked upon by many clerics as a worldly , indolent and drunken spendthrift ? |
| 4 | Meanwhile the latter were looked upon by most Russian settlers as fair game to be preyed upon in a variety of ways . |
| 5 | The extent of the crisis in the Soviet economy was illustrated in November and December by the introduction of food rationing in many parts of the country , including Leningrad , its second largest city , and by an international airlift of emergency food aid which was looked upon by some as a national humiliation . |
| 6 | The organiz er organization doing is er fighting in every place where we think that there are o old aged pensioners being in er imposed upon in any way . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 8 | The line of the body is not impinged upon at all at this point and everything is very neat and tidy . |
| 9 | In theory , the use of Arabic as the medium of instruction in the medical schools of the Arab world is a long term objective decided upon by all Arab governments . |
| 10 | In all probability there were always a few freeholders in any county who could be prevailed upon in this way to swing their votes behind a candidate who offered a guarantee of advantage . |
| 11 | Policies were embarked upon with little notion of the long-term consequences on spending . |
| 12 | Some folk theories of sport have achieved a myth-like status , and they are often seriously entertained and elaborated upon by those in sport . |
| 13 | It therefore becomes necessary to outline what must be agreed upon between both sides if the argument is to be taken further . |
| 14 | ‘ As you know Mr. Arteh [ Qalib ] was appointed as the interim Prime Minister for Somalia within the context of arrangements agreed upon by all the Somali political parties that participated in the Somali National Reconciliation Conference held at Djibouti in July 1991 . |
| 15 | These deposits can be drawn upon at any time by a customer , principally by means of a cheque . |
| 16 | Kinship between the Capetians and Plantagenets was a string played upon by many intermediaries and arbitrators , but there is also evidence for genuine expressions of affection . |
| 17 | It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time . |
| 18 | One possible way of obtaining these special facilities might be to create a special cross-reference file that can be called upon at any stage and edited as the need arises . |
| 19 | Military forces , usually state militia , were frequently called upon during that period to preserve law and order in violent strike situations . |
| 20 | Its soothing action has been called upon for many generations . |
| 21 | In my humble opinion , he should not be called upon for such justification . |
| 22 | like most of these these have , erm what I want to know is er why , when I was disposed of as you like as a useless article , why I am suddenly called upon by this government to be one hundred per cent , not fifty per cent responsible , but one hundred per cent responsible , not only for my children which I 'm quite happy to do , but one hundred per cent responsible to keep my wife off of benefit and one hundred per cent responsible if she should ever want one , t for her partner . |
| 23 | The services of ISCO can be called upon by those who enrol for several years after the pupil have left school . |
| 24 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |
| 25 | We must ensure that the territorials have a much more satisfactory and satisfying role in the future and that those who wish to make themselves available in such an emergency have that offer taken up and that they are readily called upon in such times of emergency . |
| 26 | This spontaneous surge of ‘ substitute fictions ’ ( 169 ) is commented upon by many of those who take to keeping computerized journals . |
| 27 | On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents . |
| 28 | Consequently there was a witch-hunt for any books that could possibly be construed as sexist , racist , colonialist , etc , which were fallen upon with all the fury of a Puritan iconoclast . |
| 29 | This means that the original cause of action can no longer be relied upon for any purpose . |
| 30 | Few can be relied upon for any technical back-up or support services although they can draw upon the services of their manufacturing suppliers for this purpose . |