Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that the superpowers are vital to the success of the peace process is based upon the influence they exert on the regional contestants , but in reality they have helped to perpetuate regional conflict and global competition in the area , with the encouragement of local clients . |
| 2 | In fact , when the Druids found mistletoe growing upon the oak they regarded it as magical and raised the status of both oak and mistletoe to one of holiness ! |
| 3 | While it is self-evident that childhood experiences must have a profound formative effect upon the beliefs we have about ourselves and upon our expectations of others , most of us fail to take them into account when we run into trouble later on in life . |
| 4 | You may only advise her as your are her friend not to give herself too much licence upon the favours she meets with , if she stays here . |
| 5 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 6 | This is particularly true of social policies , where their impact upon the public depends upon the way they interrelate . |
| 7 | It repeated and enlarged upon the treatment he used at the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices , with the main entrance , under a large dome , into a grand hall 320 feet long by 150 feet wide ( 97.540 × 45.720 m ) on the site of the Foreign Office . |
| 8 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 9 | Upon the whole you have proved to be |
| 10 | It is my belief that even without this tragic news , Lord Darlington would have set upon the course he took ; his desire to see an end to injustice and suffering was too deeply ingrained in his nature for him to have done otherwise . |
| 11 | And when they were come , and settled into conference with him : ‘ I desire your views upon the decision I have taken in this matter of the Welsh war . |
| 12 | This is a historic town , I I disagree with Mr Jewitt upon the emphasis he gives to that , but I do agree with him that a limit the type , the scale of growth which that solution would imply would be hurtful , would be very , extremely harmful to the town . |
| 13 | It is worth remembering that it is useful to the Bank to know what their customers think of the services they receive : it enables them to improve upon the services they offer . |
| 14 | The appearance of the two documents , and the Government 's intention to legislate upon the proposals they contained , dealt a sideways , but nonetheless mortal , blow to Brooke 's Royal Commission which was simultaneously subjecting the entire penal system to critical review . |
| 15 | He turns his back upon the life he has led in this society . |
| 16 | I have n't given details of steaming or pressing as this depends upon the yarns you have used , but do n't overdo it ! |
| 17 | But it all depends upon the decisions you make today . |
| 18 | They would be coming back to education , however , to build upon the qualifications they had already begun to acquire , and would feel at least equal , if not superior in some respects , to their peers who had remained in full-time education . |
| 19 | In the great majority of them , the point at issue ( whether a course should be given approval or whether approval was withheld ) invariably centred upon the balance it achieved between ‘ academic rigour ’ and ‘ professional ’ skills . |
| 20 | He died later that year having certainly left his mark upon the town he had adopted for his ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 21 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 22 | On the state of the evidence at the moment , it may well be that there will be a request for to withdraw the case from the jury on the grounds that no reasonable jury properly directed could conceivably find er a anything other than reasonableness in the police acting upon the information they had and that 's for me to decide . |
| 23 | Counteracting my cancer cells has been an evolutionary process in which a whole series of different ‘ attacks ’ have been launched depending upon the information I have on myself , how and what I feel . |
| 24 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 25 | Beesley watched the action with his daughter on several successive evenings , and what follows is based upon the account she gave to me . |
| 26 | They approached a blank stone wall and the lad touched certain buttons upon the contraption he wore on his wrist . |
| 27 | More attention , therefore , has been paid to the process by which rank-and-file intelligenty were recruited into the underground ; the interaction between their ideological development and the popular pressure for change welling up from below ; the social composition and structure of the revolutionary organizations they created ; and the impact which those organizations had upon the masses they sought to represent . |
| 28 | Human life is gregarious , the quality of our lives depending to no small degree upon the relationships we have with other people . |
| 29 | Once upon a time he had read a quite terrifying number of books and accumulated an equally terrifying number of opinions about them . |
| 30 | Once upon a time he had instant access to anyone in the office ; now he would telephone and be put on hold . |