Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 2 | The impact of this episode upon the efforts to change the style of services for mentally ill patients is hard to conjecture . |
| 3 | ‘ The petition read , ‘ It is incumbent upon the council to prevent the crown falling to issue of the pretended wedlock between his late Majesty and the lady Elizabeth Woodville , made without the consent of the lords of the land , and by the sorcery of the said Elizabeth and her mother Jacquetta — as the voice is throughout the land — privily and secretly in a chamber , without proclamation by banns according to the laudable custom of the English church ; the said King Edward being married and troth-plight a long time before to one , Eleanor Butler , daughter to the old Earl of Shrewsbury ’ . ’ |
| 4 | He has condemned the programme as depressive , blamed it for our low national morale , inquired on numerous occasions why they ca n't sing something sophisticated for a change and twice called upon the public to stick a pitchfork through Jack Emblow 's accordion . |
| 5 | Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate . |
| 6 | The First Vice President thanked the President and called upon the assembly to receive the Address with acclaim . |
| 7 | Section 27 of the SGA imposes upon the seller a duty to deliver the goods and upon the buyer to accept the goods in both cases in accordance with the terms of the contract . |
| 8 | I stress again that where there has been unlawful subletting which has determined ( and which has not been waived ) there has been a breach which at common law entitles the lessor to re-enter : nothing can be done to remedy that breach : the expiry of the subterm has not been annulled or remedied the breach : in such a case the lessor plainly need not , in his section 146 notice , call upon the lessee to remedy the breach which is not capable of remedy , and is free to issue his writ for possession , the possibility of relief remaining . |
| 9 | We call upon the government to demonstrate the same dedication and commitment as the workforce at Swans . |
| 10 | But humbly regret that the Gracious Speech seeks to continue economic policies which have caused a deep and damaging recession , falling output and investment , rising unemployment and record levels of business failures and house repossessions ; and call upon the Government to adopt a programme for recovery which will encourage investment and rising levels of employment by the promotion of sustained investment in the manufacturing sector , by encouraging industrial innovation through the application of science and technology and by fully exploiting the potential of the neglected regions through vigorous regional policies , and by providing new opportunities in education and training which are crucial to Britain 's economic recovery and future prosperity . |
| 11 | It calls upon the Government to sign the EEC directive to ban tobacco advertising . |
| 12 | A report recently published by the Council for National Parks calls upon the government to make a much stronger commitment to protect the environmental values for which the parks were originally created . |
| 13 | If the trustee is dissatisfied with the value placed on the security , he can call upon the creditor to offer the security for sale ( r 6.118 ) . |
| 14 | If the parents of a mentally handicapped child immediately reject the child on realising that it is handicapped , or find that life with the child is so difficult that they feel unable to cope , it falls upon the state to find an alternative place of residence , in particular on local authorities . |
| 15 | A resolution of the European Parliament early in 1989 called upon the Faroese to ban the use of the gaff from boats and in water more than a metre deep . |
| 16 | The announcement followed the presentation on Aug. 7 of a non-binding resolution — signed by 144 of the 209-member House of Representatives and 10 senators , many of whom were supporters of Aquino — calling upon the President to lift the prohibition . |
| 17 | Morgan v. Palmer was , as I have already said , a case in which the defendant used his authority to exert pressure upon the plaintiff to pay the sum demanded . |
| 18 | One solution was the improvement of administrative and managerial efficiency , but emphasis was increasingly placed upon the need to improve the physical and productive efficiency of the mass of the population , and to increase the size of that population . |
| 19 | The philosophical message of Vegetius 's De re militari centred upon the need to defend the common good , and for that need to be met not by the employment of mercenaries but by members of the community adequately prepared to fight . |
| 20 | A good example of what is involved in such studies is provided by a critical review of theories concerning Latin American political development ( Graciarena and Franco , 1978 ) , in which the authors note the central importance of the conception of the ‘ developmentalist ’ state in its various forms , and the insistence by many social scientists in recent years upon the need to study the course of history with the aid of categories which are ‘ historically relevant ’ to Latin America . |
| 21 | The attention of both reactionary and liberally inclined noblemen focused upon the need to establish a new basis for local government . |
| 22 | These lexical items act upon the grammar to constrain the temporariness sense since as lexical items they denote temporary activities . |
| 23 | He had done this by various means : avoiding direct taxation as much as he could ; resorting to prerogative levies ; borrowing as heavily as he dared ; and finally relying upon the pope to tax the clergy for the benefit of the crown . |
| 24 | It is a difficult question to know how far they merely duplicate the existing common law powers that arise from the obligation imposed upon the police to preserve the peace , which plainly permit the police to give instructions to limit the numbers at a gathering if that should be necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 25 | And it is important to notice that the onus is upon the atheist to show the reason why ( *a ) the experience is not ( *c ) to be trusted . |
| 26 | The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings . |
| 27 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 28 | An appeal against a committal order based upon a failure to serve the committal order on the contemnor presents somewhat of a paradox . |
| 29 | This method is based upon an algorithm to determine the likelihood that two adjacent words are truly a collocation , rather than an accidental association . |