Example sentences of "upon [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In David Lloyd George 's coalition government he was successively parliamentary secretary at the newly created Ministry of Labour ( 1916–19 ) and the Board of Trade ( 1919–20 ) , and first secretary of the mines department ( 1920–2 ) , acquiring experience of industrial relations which was again called upon during the renewed industrial unrest of 1925–6 . |
2 | Our diverse expertise has been called upon during the past year for the retrieval of radioactive isotopes from redundant industrial fire detection systems , telephone dials and medical sources ; the development of techniques for treating heavy metal discharges from industrial smelters ; the provision of packages for radioactive sources used by hospitals and health authorities . |
3 | Once looked upon as a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit — New York City and Philadelphia — the Garden State now has a much sharper image to present to the world . |
4 | In Africa visitors are looked upon as a blessing and people go out of their way to meet them and make them feel truly welcome and at home . |
5 | To continue the analogy of the Whitehall market-place , the Ministry of Defence itself can be looked upon as a specialized commodity market , in which the three Services and the Defence scientists bargain for their share of the resources won by the Secretary of State on the main trading floor during the annual Public Expenditure Reviews . |
6 | Whilst Rodinal may not be looked upon as a standard developer by the photographic industry in the same way that Ilford 's ID-II and Kodak 's D-76 are regarded , it is interesting to note for instance that Ilford list , among other developers , Rodinal at a 1:25 dilution , complete with recommended developing times , for its new Delta-400 high-speed emulsion at normal , pull 1-stop and push 1-stop exposure indices . |
7 | Gnosticism can be looked upon as a revolt against Greek science . |
8 | W … , the eldest son of the house , looked upon as a ne'er-do-well , gazing at his prize . |
9 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
10 | And , of course , on the largest scale , the Universe itself , expanding from the big bang , may also be looked upon as a white hole erupting from a singularity . |
11 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
12 | David Hartridge had become a fully-fledged pilot and was looked upon as a hero . |
13 | The knowledge of poisons and antidotes is one of the eight chief subjects of Indian medical science and it is strongly evident that the Naga Takshaka was looked upon as a patron of the medical profession . |
14 | Until recent years , when the popularity of the short story has greatly increased , it was looked upon as a sort of poor relation to the novel , something the novelist did to occupy idle time , rather like whittling wood . |
15 | ‘ Peering close ’ is often looked upon as a sign of excellent accommodation capacity . |
16 | This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch . |
17 | Clearly , examinations , the way they are perceived , oriented to and drawn upon as a source of professional justification by teachers , are but one source of influence on the continuing pervasiveness of transmission styles of teaching in the school system . |
18 | Also the idea that a strong obligation exists between parents and children , which can be relied upon as a source of support in most circumstances , misses a point of prime significance , namely that such support must be negotiated and provided in a way which does not trespass upon the independence of either party , especially of adult children . |
19 | It was voted upon as a whole on 16 October , and taken up again after a week 's break on 25–27 October . |
20 | When , during the 1930s and 1940s , the concern was with the quantity as much as with the quality of population this particular objection carried little weight , although being drawn upon as a reason for not restricting a national scheme of family allowances to the working classes alone . |
21 | In his well-known work on asylums ( Goffman , 1961 ) he shows how progress through the wards of a mental hospital can be looked upon as a progress through a system of hazards in the course of which honour and reputation is risked , gained and lost . |
22 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
23 | Although , for instance , deposits of galena exist between the Nile and the Red Sea and were doubtless drawn upon as a source of the eye-paint known from graves of the Predynastic period , these in fact contained relatively little silver . |
24 | For a class of materials called conductors the internal charge distribution may be looked upon as a cloud of mobile negative particles in the background of immobile positive lattice ions . |
25 | Then poor Pamela must be turned off and looked upon as a vile abandoned creature , and everybody would despise her , and justly too , Mrs. Jervis . |
26 | But if you have a reasonable cross section of the country and your result was still that Birmingham was looked down upon as a low status accent , then at least you can your results so . . |
27 | More emphasis on domestic subjects in the curriculum of secondary school girls was now recommended on the grounds that ‘ every girl should be looked upon as a potential wife and mother ’ , just as the Board of Education promoted the teaching of housewifery , laundry and cookery to working class girls . |
28 | Database systems which process and store information , which can be drawn upon as a kind of organizational memory-bank . |
29 | The tuba , when blown softly , combines well with the horns , and might be looked upon as a possible deep ‘ 5th horn ’ . |
30 | In my experience people will forgive a lot of things , but not being beaten at their own game by someone they 've always looked upon as a caricature . ’ |