Example sentences of "upon it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a sense of destiny , I leaned forward and tapped upon it with an invisible finger . |
| 2 | Clearly , however , the disputed collectorship was creating an unusually good opportunity for the enemies of the Montrose interest to split that interest and thus prepare the way for an attack upon it on a future occasion . |
| 3 | You may well look back upon it as a golden age . |
| 4 | The first is to look upon it as a simple riddle to which the Scribes seemingly had no answer . |
| 5 | ‘ If you were a true Christian , Ella , you would look upon it as a new beginning . ’ |
| 6 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |
| 7 | Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies , who look upon it as a social club . |
| 8 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 9 | As we have seen , however , trade-unionism failed to take root less because of intelligentsia influence than because of the constraints placed upon it by the tsarist State . |
| 10 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 11 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 12 | However , as oceanic lithosphere ages , cools and thickens it becomes more dense than the asthenosphere and rests upon it in an unstable state . |
| 13 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |