Example sentences of "upon a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 21 the South Korean authorities claimed that North Korean troops in the eastern sector of the heavily fortified border had fired upon a South Korean position . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An ageing leaf , suggested by random blobs upon a shape evocative of a leaf . |
| 4 | The United States had accepted the EDC as part of its strategy : the rejection of the EDC did not mean any amendment to the American insistence upon a West German defence contribution or greater inputs from the other states . |
| 5 | based upon a profit bottom line for Grant Development , we 're here looking at the planning application and all the implications . |
| 6 | These provisions gave rise to uncertainty largely because the courts showed a marked reluctance to interpret them according to the ordinary meaning of such words as ‘ void , and they also gave rise to injustice because under the Common Law an infant could still sue an adult upon a contract unenforceable against himself and incapable of ratification by him . |
| 7 | We are a two-year-old flying group of five members , based upon a Piper 180 Cherokee . |
| 8 | ‘ write an Encomium upon a Person I |
| 9 | Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas . |
| 10 | It solved efficiently and finally the problem of how to construct a circular form upon a square one . |
| 11 | The foundation is the duty to take care , and whether such a duty exists depends upon a relationship existing , or coming into existence , between the parties which is capable in the particular circumstances of the case of imposing a duty on the one in relation to the other . |
| 12 | While digesting my daily dose of Gulf wallpaper the other week , I chanced upon a Radio 4 telephone spat between an editor from ITN and Nicholas Soames MP , a Tory backbencher . |
| 13 | So under the surface of the thick glass lay a mass of long gold threads , filling in the whole cavity of the box with their turns and tumbles , so that at first the little tailor thought he had come upon a box full of spun gold , to make cloth of gold . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He is remembered chiefly for his series of twenty Organ Sonatas , but there is much more besides ; a substantial corpus of choral music , including three Requiems and no fewer than twelve Masses , two operas , a Symphony , symphonic poem , two Concertos for Organ ( once upon a time available from E. Power Biggs on a CBS LP ) and one for Piano — and a fair amount of chamber music , sixteen opus numbers in all , of which this Thorofon CD ( the least of seven ) rounds off a complete recording . |
| 16 | Once upon a time this may have been so . |
| 17 | Once upon a time this plasteel cavern with its ranks of mighty support pillars must have seemed spacious , voluminous , gargantuan . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Predictably , Irish Terence Adair believes that ‘ if steamers come into vogue , they will do away with all the romance once upon a time supposed to belong to a naval life ’ but the Scotsman 's more practical view chimes in with Jack 's opinion . |
| 20 | Once upon a time another German government let Lenin cross another Germany in a sealed train on his way to Russia . |
| 21 | ONCE UPON a time Primal Scream were a dismal Byrds-obsessed ‘ C86 ’ jangle rock band with a biker fetish . |
| 22 | And the story behind these instruments is that Roberto Brandoni , a London-based importer of Italian musical goods , stumbled upon a warehouse full of necks , bodies and parts , bought the lot and is currently assembling and selling them . |
| 23 | The HPF compiler , demonstrated at the supercomputing show , is based upon a data parallel language — an optimising Fortran90D compiler — developed by Syracuse group and backed by funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , DARPA . |