Example sentences of "[noun] upon [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 2 | An ageing leaf , suggested by random blobs upon a shape evocative of a leaf . |
| 3 | Furthermore , each child learned at a different pace in every subject area and this pace was uneven , reflecting the whole range of influences upon the child external to life in school . |
| 4 | These all create criminal offences ; they all provide similar defences to the accused ; they confer powers of enforcement upon local weights and measures authorities ; and the Fair Trading Act confers powers and duties upon the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It solved efficiently and finally the problem of how to construct a circular form upon a square one . |
| 7 | ‘ write an Encomium upon a Person I |