Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is particularly true of social policies , where their impact upon the public depends upon the way they interrelate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Upon the whole you have proved to be |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He turns his back upon the life he has led in this society . |
| 15 | In short , they wanted to " set all things back upon the foot they were at his coming to the crown " . |
| 16 | I decide upon the goal I would achieve . |
| 17 | In the great majority of them , the point at issue ( whether a course should be given approval or whether approval was withheld ) invariably centred upon the balance it achieved between ‘ academic rigour ’ and ‘ professional ’ skills . |
| 18 | " Will you swear upon the Cross it is the truth ? " |
| 19 | She is intent upon the picture she is painting , a luminous , finely-detailed portrait of a myoglobin molecule . |
| 20 | He died later that year having certainly left his mark upon the town he had adopted for his ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 21 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 22 | On the state of the evidence at the moment , it may well be that there will be a request for to withdraw the case from the jury on the grounds that no reasonable jury properly directed could conceivably find er a anything other than reasonableness in the police acting upon the information they had and that 's for me to decide . |
| 23 | Counteracting my cancer cells has been an evolutionary process in which a whole series of different ‘ attacks ’ have been launched depending upon the information I have on myself , how and what I feel . |
| 24 | Your pay grade on appointment will depend upon the job you will be doing . |
| 25 | Each case has an interest all on its own , and each case treated successfully is a triumph to add to his confidence in his own ability , and an experience in the use of his ability that solidifies his own outlook upon the job he is doing . |
| 26 | Beesley watched the action with his daughter on several successive evenings , and what follows is based upon the account she gave to me . |
| 27 | They approached a blank stone wall and the lad touched certain buttons upon the contraption he wore on his wrist . |
| 28 | Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after . |
| 29 | Once upon a time we were all law-abiding citizens , and now we 've got football hooligans . |
| 30 | Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a band , especially one with such a reputation as Happy Mondays ’ , to apologise for their remarks without some sort of legal action being taken against them . |