Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asquith 's criticism of Lloyd George 's actions played upon the myth that |
| 2 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 3 | Now , the fact that a criminal offence is committed by a trader or creditor does not confer upon the consumer any right to bring an action or obtain redress in the civil courts . |
| 4 | ‘ At this stage it is not known if charges will follow as this will depend upon the results these interviews and other inquiries . ’ |
| 5 | Further than this most knitters never go , unless they come upon a problem such as the pattern being too big , or containing too many colour changes to knit as designed . |
| 6 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 7 | Once upon a time this may have been so . |
| 8 | Once upon a time this plasteel cavern with its ranks of mighty support pillars must have seemed spacious , voluminous , gargantuan . |
| 9 | Once upon a time this was the role everyone thought was the right and moral one , but the immense power of television to influence , and the rapid growth of communications , makes such definitions naive . |
| 10 | Once upon a time another German government let Lenin cross another Germany in a sealed train on his way to Russia . |
| 11 | " The common duty of care does not impose upon an occupier any obligation willingly accepted as his by the visitor . " |