Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it quite certain that the ordinary law Courts are in all cases the best body for adjudicating upon the offences or the errors of civil servants . |
| 2 | the rain came down and the floods came up and the house on the rocks slid down , but the foolish man built his house upon the sand , the foolish man built his house upon the sand , the foolish man built his house upon the sand and the rain came tumbling down |
| 3 | the rain came down and the floods came up and the house on the rocks slid down , but the foolish man built his house upon the sand , the foolish man built his house upon the sand , the foolish man built his house upon the sand and the rain came tumbling down |
| 4 | This will particularly be the case when the adverse effect is upon the livelihood or the ability to earn of the second person or body . |
| 5 | There are a number of theories that discuss this relationship and they are generally known as ‘ style theories of leadership ’ where the focus is upon the style that a leader adopts in dealing with others . |
| 6 | This makes the counselling task even more difficult to interpret , but even within this complicated network of family systems , aspects of the wider , extended family unit will still be evident , perhaps comprising a number of separate systems which interact upon the way that the provision of care for older relatives is organized . |
| 7 | However , most new shareholders have only a small stake in the companies in which they have invested , and in reality they may have little influence upon the way that the companies are run ( see , for example , the claims of John Scott pp. 57–62 ) . |
| 8 | The Dene-Metis agreement later foundered upon the requirement that the natives surrender their aboriginal rights to other lands . |
| 9 | Those that did not depend upon the land or the sea she might transpose to another setting . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 11 | If a capital sum is paid by the connected body corporate to the settlor then to the extent of the income available in the trust , that capital sum can be taxed as income upon the settlor and the excess of the amount of the capital sum over income for that year can be taxed in subsequent years as income becomes available in the trust . |
| 12 | The Revenue would have some difficulty if they were to try to apply this head to tax upon the settlor or the spouse of the settlor income validly accumulating in an overseas discretionary trust . |
| 13 | 3.8.2 with effect from the Possession Date pay and indemnify the Landlord against all rates taxes assessments duties charges impositions and outgoings from time to time charged upon the Premises or the owner or occupier of them Although unlikely to have such a constriction placed on it , there is something to be said for inserting a similar exclusion into this clause to that inserted in clause 5.2.1 of the lease . |
| 14 | Term 6 returns to a focus upon the home and the community of the child and teacher . |
| 15 | This double emphasis upon the transcendence and the immanence of God can be recognised from the other Near Eastern religions . |
| 16 | The style and format will depend upon the content and the context of the report and the audience to whom it is addressed . |
| 17 | Category A , carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , would consist of sexual assaults involving penetration ( as defined in New South Wales ) and accompanied by the infliction of grievous bodily harm upon the complainant or a third party . |
| 18 | Category B , carrying a maximum penalty of 14 years ’ imprisonment , would cover sexual assaults involving penetration accompanied by the infliction of actual bodily harm on the complainant or a third party ; a threat to inflict such harm with a weapon upon the complainant or a third party ; a threat to inflict such harm upon a child ; and the participation of more than one defendant in the sexual assault . |
| 19 | Ellis , who was unemployed and living on benefit , hit upon the idea that the girl should go out to work as a prostitute , it was claimed . |
| 20 | Their strategy is based upon the idea that the boss has only a limited amount of sympathy and benefits to go round , and that their herd 's problems should have priority . |
| 21 | Through current vital statistics or special studies conducted in statistically more developed countries it has long been observed and well demonstrated that childbearing patterns , such as maternal age , parity and the interval between consecutive births have a characteristic effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 22 | The World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborative studies in the early 1970s and , later , the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) also widely documented that , in developing countries , too , maternal age has a considerable effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and the age of five years . |
| 23 | Gregory 's programme of radical reform depended upon the law and a renewed interest in legal study and declaration provided the impetus which sparked off the legal renaissance of the twelfth century . |
| 24 | The specific form was built upon the notion that the outbreak of violence in Handsworth and Brixton , in particular , was brought about by ‘ drug barons ’ who saw the police attempting to curb their activities and control ‘ their territory ’ . |
| 25 | Significantly , the use of interviews and questionnaires in mass surveys depended upon the notion that the responses offered by respondents about their conditions and experiences were almost as good as the direct observation of the respondents and their lives ; a far greater coverage of the population could be achieved than by using observational methods . |
| 26 | There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries . |
| 27 | A further reservoir at Crick had to be abandoned because of a diversion in the authorised line of the Crick Tunnel , forced upon the Company when the builders struck bad strata in 1912 . |
| 28 | Formality has little bearing upon the materials that the pool is constructed from . |
| 29 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 30 | The Public Service Ideal is based upon the realization that the limited set of existing news sources are no longer pamphlets distributed in the market-place , they are the market-place itself ; no longer speakers in a public debate , but the platform on which that debate must take place . |