Example sentences of "upon [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work done by the tides may be looked upon as an energy subsidy ( see p 116 ) . |
| 2 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 3 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 4 | They must remain ‘ methodologically agnostic ’ about non-empirical happenings ; neither God , the Holy Spirit nor Satan can be called upon as an independent variable in a sociological explanation . |
| 5 | Merger of Banstead and Horton had been decided upon as an option as early as 1979 , and NHS managers were unsure of how far comprehensive community service without mental hospitals could be developed . |
| 6 | A man or woman with bow legs is looked upon as an ugly person . |
| 7 | To permit the ex turpi causa defence to be relied upon as an answer to such a claim would , in my view , narrow to a substantial extent the deliberately wide wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 and would , in effect , make a claim for contribution subject to a condition precedent which is not to be found in the Act . |
| 8 | Examination questions are unreal and unrelated to life , and are looked upon as an unwelcome imposition . |
| 9 | Science has always been frowned upon as an evil , used by mad professors who seek world domination . |
| 10 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 11 | But there are things that we 're not avail er , we 're not aware of and I 'm looked on as something of an expert , so God help those people who come and ask me er , what there is , what forms they should use and what is available on the , in the organization , if I 'm looked upon as an expert . |
| 12 | In fact , the ENS can be looked upon as an amplification system for the inflammatory response . |
| 13 | This meant that from the standpoint of the MTFS , broad money could no longer be relied upon as an indicator of the direct relationship between the money supply and the spending behaviour of the economy . |
| 14 | But the results are often seized upon in an ill-digested way by popular writers , occasionally the scientists themselves , as confirming that the animals have the linguistic competence and cognitive awareness of human beings . |
| 15 | Short confidentiality clauses in standard conditions are really only precautionary measures to be relied upon in an emergency . |
| 16 | In addition , an exercise test performed periodically should be able to detect the development of new coronary lesions , so that these can be acted upon at an early stage , either by angioplasty or by coronary artery bypass grafting if this is appropriate . |
| 17 | He dared not , lest his inner thoughts might be snooped upon by an interloper . |
| 18 | Since the forms of the Council Directive were unconditional and sufficiently precise , they could be relied upon by an individual in an action against the state , but not against another individual . |
| 19 | In April 1707 , when the Whig mayor and his officers attempted to levy a toll at the cornmarket after the Tories had already done so , they were set upon by an angry crowd egged on by the Tory mayor . |