Example sentences of "[adv] upon [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the north-west corner , four different birds are nesting in close company — the mute swan regally aloft on its large and bulky nest , looking down upon a coot nesting nearby in lesser estate , with two nests of great crested grebes almost awash amongst the reeds close by . |
| 2 | It will become a criminal offence not to comply fully with any investigations , and it will be possible to impose substantial financial penalties , not only upon the companies operating a prohibited agreement , but also upon those directors found responsible for negotiating or operating such an agreement . |
| 3 | ( b ) except with the consent of the Panel , must be conditional only upon the offeror obtaining sufficient acceptances to give it more than 50 per cent of the target company 's voting rights . |
| 4 | For example , indeterminate and semi-indeterminate sentences ( such as ‘ one year to life ’ ) became more and more common in the USA , with release dates dependent not upon the sentence passed at trial but upon the parole process . |
| 5 | 3.3 While it may be sufficient , in practical terms , to know that the assessment of damages for pain and suffering or other non-primary loss , is , in any particular case , going to depend largely upon the amounts awarded in previous cases which are perceived to be similar , or at least , where there are no such cases , upon the generality of awards of compensation for injury of that general type , that is unsatisfactory as a conceptual basis of compensation . |
| 6 | We shall notice in a little how he was to build further upon the foundations laid in 1927 , and what a distinctive theology resulted . |
| 7 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |
| 8 | and they forget to tell you that once upon a time does n't always have a nice ending , yeah |
| 9 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
| 10 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |
| 11 | Its wines were once upon a time combined in the vat with those of Verzenay and it is from the reputation of that great village that Beaumont-sur-Vesle has wrested its misplaced status . |
| 12 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 13 | War may once upon a time have been a reasonably satisfactory , or at least not utterly unsatisfactory way of securing certain kinds of social change . |
| 14 | In an attempt to resolve the dispute the heads of the Jordanian , Palestinian and Israeli delegations held daily discussions in a State Department corridor , and the Palestinian side called unsuccessfully upon the USA to intervene . |
| 15 | Peter 's dream of unclean animals is recorded in Acts , Chapter 10 : 9 On the morrow , as they went on their journey , and drew nigh unto the city , Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour . |
| 16 | The reasonableness of such clauses depends mainly upon the questions raised by s 11(4) of the UCTA " is the amount a reasonable one having regard to the financial resources of the party seeking its protection , and the extent to which he could insure against the relevant liabilities ? |
| 17 | By their prudent use , an accurate R.I.A.A. network is assured but the precise design depends upon the circuit as a whole in which it is to be used and particularly upon the impedances associated with it . |
| 18 | In Mancini , for instance , the removal of York from sanctuary in the middle of June follows immediately upon the measures taken against Sir Edward Woodville in mid May , with the events seen as consecutive steps by Gloucester towards the throne . |
| 19 | In Mancini , for instance , the removal of York from sanctuary in the middle of June follows immediately upon the measures taken against Sir Edward Woodville in mid May , with the events seen as consecutive steps by Gloucester towards the throne . |
| 20 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 21 | Whichever defence is relied upon , the onus of proof is firmly upon the defendant to prove both ingredients . |
| 22 | But the early metal bands drew very heavily upon the blues influence … |
| 23 | The butler seized the glass where upon the fairies tried to regain the cup but realising that they were no match for this mortal they finally abandoned the struggle and vanished , leaving the butler with the glass cup and according to a ballad by the German poet Uhland with this warning . |
| 24 | This focuses attention squarely and inescapably upon a person acting in the capacity and with the necessary professional background of a qualified teacher . |
| 25 | The focus is therefore upon the services provided , but with an allowance made at the end for average housing and personal living costs , in order to make a sensible comparison between people living at home and those in institutions . |