Example sentences of "upon [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 2 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
| 3 | In other words , I feel guilty because I can not live up to the expectations placed upon me by society or individuals . |
| 4 | The option of allowing the appeal , with the result that the child moves at once to open accommodation , is not one that was seriously pressed upon me by Mr. Wildblood , for whose skilful and moderate submissions I am grateful . |
| 5 | That is a ground which has not been urged upon me by counsel in this case and I do not rely upon that ground only in dealing with this matter . |
| 6 | ‘ It was thrust upon me by Uncle Vernon . ’ |
| 7 | I had good cause to enjoy the many favours bestowed upon me by my inspector friend with the Cambridge police . |
| 8 | But any bias they detect on television is inflicted upon them by what seems like a television news cartel . |
| 9 | Above all , local educational standards were as yet not up to the demands put upon them by ‘ the Centre ’ . |
| 10 | Although Zuwaya merchants defended themselves against government socialism by claiming that free enterprise worked , they were not capitalists in any reasonable use of the term , the defence forced upon them by Tripoli . |
| 11 | Thus , in a colonial situation , subordinate peoples have a particular group identity forced upon them by the operation of power , rather than by some prior common features . |
| 12 | Even so , the refugees themselves are likely to resist any settlement unless it is forced upon them by the Syrian government itself . |
| 13 | First , there had to be a major subversive or espionage activity that was likely to injure the national interest , and secondly the material likely to be obtained by the interception had to be of direct use in compiling the information necessary for the security services to carry out the tasks laid upon them by the state . |
| 14 | Staunch fans are always prepared to reanalyse their favourites in whatever blinding new light is thrown upon them by a probing music journalist . |
| 15 | Babies do not enter this world suffering from anxiety ; it is a condition which is imposed upon them by other people — although not necessarily intentionally . |
| 16 | Organisations sometimes have age discrimination thrust upon them by the vicissitudes of insurance . |
| 17 | Of their own inclination the people will not apparently leave the place … they prefer to stay on , meeting calls upon them by small accommodation bills , thus gradually impoverishing themselves and making their prospects cheerless . ’ |
| 18 | Would they , could they , after the sudden heady freedom thrust upon them by war , ever go back to what they had been ? |
| 19 | The demands placed upon them by academic subjects could be put on one side , they could devote their minds with urgency to the mastery of new skills and knowledge . |
| 20 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 21 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 22 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 23 | Authors who recognize the significance of manipulation , indoctrination , or ‘ conditioned power ’ ( Galbraith , 1985 ) believe that people may make mistakes in deciding what are their interests , and accept definitions of their interests foisted upon them by the powerful . |
| 24 | Even where it was possible to draw up useful statistics , local officials were reluctant to forward information which might increase the demands made upon them by their superiors in St Petersburg . |
| 25 | Because innkeepers are under specific duties imposed upon them by the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 and at common law , they in return have certain rights which they may exercise over and above those which proprietors who are not innkeepers may exercise . |
| 26 | Yet it is an objective standard which the directors themselves define , and not one that is imposed upon them by the courts , who regard it as illegitimate to substitute their own view of what constitutes the best interests of the company or the shareholders for that of the directors of the company . |
| 27 | In addition to the three officers already mentioned , there are other officers who have specific duties placed upon them by statute . |
| 28 | It would have formalised the position that individuals can have rights and obligations imposed upon them by treaties to which they can not be parties . |
| 29 | The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go . |
| 30 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |