Example sentences of "upon it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the unborn child is ‘ expected ’ and constituted as a subject by its having a name and a sexual destiny thrust upon it at birth by the family and community that expects it . |
| 2 | We have to look upon it with interest . |
| 3 | After identification of the problem to be addressed , the next stage is to draw attention to ideas which bear upon it for interpretation and conceptual evaluation . |
| 4 | Relieved of the burdens imposed upon it by state and nobility the commune could flourish — especially once , as most of them envisaged , individual use of the land had given way to collective farming . |
| 5 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 6 | Thus it can be argued that although the courts proclaim that in reviewing the decisions of an administrative body they are merely attempting to keep the body within the jurisdiction conferred upon it by Parliament , in fact they do sometimes explicitly justify their decisions by reference to the expertise or lack of expertise of the body whose decision it is sought to review . |
| 7 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 8 | As to ( a ) accident , the Chief Justice 's examples were A's fruit falling upon C's land , or A's tree falling upon it by decay or being blown upon it by the wind . |
| 9 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 10 | The decision in Lawrence was a clear decision of this House upon the construction of the word ‘ appropriate ’ in section 1(1) of the Act , which had stood for 12 years when doubt was thrown upon it by obiter dicta in Morris . |
| 11 | Even the most generous US aid was limited by the value placed upon it by Congress in terms of American advantage . |
| 12 | As in many similar Romantic writings on the left of the political spectrum , the working class is considered authentic by virtue of precisely those attributes which have been forced upon it by oppression from above . |