Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school had no boarders , but a resident headmaster somehow ( I suppose ) conferred upon the school something of the status of the independent boarding-school . |
| 2 | The idea that the superpowers are vital to the success of the peace process is based upon the influence they exert on the regional contestants , but in reality they have helped to perpetuate regional conflict and global competition in the area , with the encouragement of local clients . |
| 3 | The supreme importance of communications , in every sense , put a premium upon the man who was prepared to handle great sheaves of paper , the man at the desk , the bureaucrat . |
| 4 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |
| 5 | It is one part only of an attack upon five great evils : upon the physical Want with which it is directly concerned , upon Disease which often causes Want and brings many other troubles in its train , upon Ignorance which no democracy can afford among its citizens , upon the Squalor which arises mainly through haphazard distribution of industry and population , and upon Idleness which destroys wealth and corrupts men , whether they are well-fed or not , when they are idle . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , when the Druids found mistletoe growing upon the oak they regarded it as magical and raised the status of both oak and mistletoe to one of holiness ! |
| 7 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 8 | He declared that 90 per cent of Indonesians belonged to this class of small farmers , labourers , urban workers : and he did not direct his attack upon the other 10 per cent but upon the Dutch who had exploited them and the Chinese entrepreneurs who lived off their labour . |
| 9 | What it means for ‘ us ’ is not so much the resurrection of ‘ anti-pop ’ , but a culture of margins ; a disdainful gaze upon the terrain we once occupied , a satellite relationship to a pop centre now barred to us . |
| 10 | Other pranks included a chair which , when sat upon , pinned down the unwary with a pair of mechanical arms : another was a slipper placed upon the floor which , when kicked , caused a weird and ghostly apparition to arise . |
| 11 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 12 | This is particularly true of social policies , where their impact upon the public depends upon the way they interrelate . |
| 13 | There is also a considerable amount of feedback from implementation which influences further policy making , and many policies are so skeletal that their real impact depends upon the way they are interpreted at the implementation stage . |
| 14 | Even when they are silent their example in attitude and behaviour has a direct bearing upon the way their role is perceived by the congregation . |
| 15 | The way in which an organisation is structured depends upon the way its members feel it will best survive in the world . |
| 16 | Not being in the present will contribute a great deal to the unhappiness caused by worries and anxieties of modem-day living , because we allow our minds to dwell upon the past which we can not change and the future which has not yet happened . |
| 17 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 18 | In the tense silence which followed this remark , all eyes now turned upon the couple who had been fetched from their bedroom ; the couple who had decided that any further diet of delightful architecture would have amounted to a sort of cultural force-feeding . |
| 19 | Building upon the experience which he gained as Malevich 's assistant at the National Institute for Artistic Culture in Leningrad in 1923–26 , when he helped to create the master 's ‘ Analytic Tables ’ , Rozhdestwjenski directed his talent towards the decorative arts , designing books and advertisements , painting porcelain , and creating , with Nikolai Suetin , the Soviet Pavilion for the World Exhibitions held in Paris in 1938 and in New York in 1939 . |
| 20 | It repeated and enlarged upon the treatment he used at the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices , with the main entrance , under a large dome , into a grand hall 320 feet long by 150 feet wide ( 97.540 × 45.720 m ) on the site of the Foreign Office . |
| 21 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 22 | Upon the whole you have proved to be |
| 23 | It is my belief that even without this tragic news , Lord Darlington would have set upon the course he took ; his desire to see an end to injustice and suffering was too deeply ingrained in his nature for him to have done otherwise . |
| 24 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 25 | She continued being ‘ the worst horse in the world ’ until one year she was served by yet another stallion ; but this time the stallion worked a genetic miracle upon the foal which was quite happy to be taught anything ! |
| 26 | And when they were come , and settled into conference with him : ‘ I desire your views upon the decision I have taken in this matter of the Welsh war . |
| 27 | This is a historic town , I I disagree with Mr Jewitt upon the emphasis he gives to that , but I do agree with him that a limit the type , the scale of growth which that solution would imply would be hurtful , would be very , extremely harmful to the town . |
| 28 | Matilda , Countess of Anjou and Princess of England , occupied her great , carved chair as though she sat upon the throne she stubbornly insisted was hers . |
| 29 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 30 | Alexei allowed himself to dwell upon the knowledge which he had retained from that long-ago survey briefing . |