Example sentences of "[verb] upon by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very idea of the variable draws upon an analogy with the highly abstract structure of mathematics in which variables and constants are objects in a mathematical domain operated upon by the appropriate rules for manipulation . |
| 2 | This good news has to be built upon by the direct and firm action set out in , this , the second Road Safety Plan for Lothian . |
| 3 | There will still be required annual registration but this will be more of a check upon the existing state of the rolling register and will supply extra information that can be acted upon by the electoral returning officer . |
| 4 | The specification recommended in the document which has been issued , and which was praised in Standing Committee , has been acted upon by the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 5 | Another agency may therefore apply for an EPO if it disagrees with the recommendation of the case conference or that recommendation has not been acted upon by the local authority . |
| 6 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 7 | One child volunteers to leave the room where she is to touch an article agreed upon by the other players . |
| 8 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 9 | The proposals were reported to have been agreed upon by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) and the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) on Oct. 19 and were presented to the Council of Representatives on Nov. 18 . |
| 10 | Mr George Daszczuk was pinned to the ground and mauled for 15 minutes as he was set upon by the two dogs , which had chewed their way through the wooden door of a garage they were guarding . |
| 11 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 12 | But these murders were crafted in the human soul and decided upon by the human mind even if carried out for malicious , devilish purposes . |
| 13 | Appearance money is officially frowned upon by the European Tour but the creases in the foreheads of the officers have not been discerned by the Spaniard . |
| 14 | The use of such techniques for language processing has traditionally been frowned upon by the linguistic community . |
| 15 | For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community . |
| 16 | It has been suggested the phrase ‘ pretended family relationship ’ is directed at the book Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin , which shows a girl living with her father and a male partner who have a homosexual relationship ; the presence of this book in an ILEA school was seized upon by the tabloid press . |
| 17 | We have discussed this in more detail in Chapter Three where we saw how the parameters of this debate as set out in these campaigns were seized upon by the Tory Party with little or no response from the Labour Party who seemed unable to cope with the authoritarian drift . |
| 18 | This crisis was seized upon by the nuclear power lobby with Messianic zeal . |
| 19 | That topic was only touched upon by the hon. Member for Gateshead , East . |
| 20 | Their wages are held down as much by non-union agreements insisted upon by the Asian and American employers as by progressive devaluation . |
| 21 | Before the stone had come to a halt it was pounced upon by the entire family who gleefully heaved the unfortunate lump of granite out through the back door and out of their lives ! |
| 22 | I was aware what could happen , I could see that any weakness was pounced upon by the other boys and I knew that I was n't big enough or belligerent enough to bully my way out of it . |
| 23 | What I like about the system is that it does n't shout its presence to human interlopers : what do you do when your anti-predator device is preyed upon by the local villain ? |
| 24 | His flotilla was taken wholly by surprise when fired upon by the British warships and turned tail . |