Example sentences of "upon [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we might say : according to our view , God 's eye is upon the historic process |
| 2 | Yet still , there was to be a branding upon the leather-tough buttocks : an imprint of a clenched fist , no larger than a fingernail . |
| 3 | Most of these officials , apart from the land-officers , operated at the centre and the Crown had virtually no local bureaucracy : to enforce its commands it must rely upon the unpaid assistance of the propertied classes . |
| 4 | He has a flawless sense of colour and form , and realises an ideal balance between formal clipped structure and drifting floral ephemera , springing delicious surprises upon the enchanted visitor . |
| 5 | In Chapter 8 — on motivation — we shall examine research on the civil service which draws heavily upon the two-factor analysis developed by Herzberg . |
| 6 | We have shown that the % PV flow in all the patients with PVO was 8.6% with a range of 1 to 30% , indicating that blood flow to the liver may become almost entirely dependant upon the hepatic artery . |
| 7 | When learners are called upon to use the language being learned for some communicative purpose , a purpose other than language practice , then they will be naturally disposed to draw upon the systemic resources which have proved serviceable in the past for the achievement of indexical meaning . |
| 8 | He stood , leaning forward to place his palms flat on Hayman 's desk , staring down upon the still seated man . |
| 9 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 10 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 11 | On the other hand , arguments have raged since the early eighteenth century about the relative emphasis to be placed upon the Second and Third Pillars . |
| 12 | Thus Sunni power came to be founded upon Shia poverty , the first more or less conditional upon the second . |
| 13 | The National Government in its first three years thus operated on the curious basis of the Prime Minister depending to an unusual extent on the second man in the Government , and that second man in turn depending to an equally unusual extent upon the second man in his own party . |
| 14 | It frequently arises that an item is considered beyond economical repair based upon the second hand value and not the replacement value . |
| 15 | Once the immediate crisis of 1940 had been weathered and the country embarked upon the long haul of productive effort and austerity , groups like the ‘ 1941 Committee ’ pressed Britain 's war aims in terms of plans for the future . |
| 16 | This does not mean that democracy is conceived only as the political form assumed by the rule of the bourgeoisie , even though it is historically an achievement of the bourgeoisie , a real advance upon the preceding forms of government and a ‘ progressive ’ feature of capitalism . |
| 17 | He surfaced upon the deaf scene as a young teacher in Donaldson 's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | I respectfully agree with his reasons for rejecting the plaintiffs ' claim for the inspection of documents and disclosure of information before trial based upon section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , upon the alleged proprietary claim and upon waiver . |
| 19 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 20 | In 1620 the Lord President and the Council of the North reported to the Privy Council that the enclosure of the ‘ best part ’ of Galtres Forest had inflicted great hardship upon the poor of Easingwold and Kirkby . |
| 21 | For medical treatment they and their children depended upon the Poor Law or , mainly in the cities , medical charities , or upon the charity of doctors , some of whom treated poor families free of charge or ran medical clubs of their own to which poorer patients could make small contributions . |
| 22 | Also in the last months before the war Lloyd George appears to have been contemplating a more direct assault upon the Poor Law which had been almost unchanged by the Reports of the Royal Commission in February 1909 . |
| 23 | The cult of self-help , usually visited upon the poor , actually belongs not to the poor but to participants in society , the respectable , self-helping , self-respecting institutions of organised communities and classes . |
| 24 | Such missionary zeal does not , however , pause to question the validity of those middle-class standards that it seeks to impose upon the poor . |
| 25 | This focus upon the real impact of crime upon the poor , women and ethnic minorities is also an important part of the left realist approach to criminology . |
| 26 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 27 | Whilst celebrating the ordinary , she happens upon the marvellous . |
| 28 | Whilst celebrating the ordinary , she happens upon the marvellous . |
| 29 | In 1294 when the king demanded a half of their incomes from the clergy , a half based upon the revised valuation of 1291 , Canterbury was vacant , and York and Durham were occupied by royal servants . |
| 30 | But more often they took the little leafy lane which led from Thrush Green to Upper Pleshy , Nod and Nidden , the lane that threaded half a dozen or more sleepy thatched villages , like hoary old beads upon its winding string , before it emerged upon the broad highway which led to Stratford-upon-Avon . |