Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not being in the present will contribute a great deal to the unhappiness caused by worries and anxieties of modem-day living , because we allow our minds to dwell upon the past which we can not change and the future which has not yet happened . |
| 2 | Building upon the experience which he gained as Malevich 's assistant at the National Institute for Artistic Culture in Leningrad in 1923–26 , when he helped to create the master 's ‘ Analytic Tables ’ , Rozhdestwjenski directed his talent towards the decorative arts , designing books and advertisements , painting porcelain , and creating , with Nikolai Suetin , the Soviet Pavilion for the World Exhibitions held in Paris in 1938 and in New York in 1939 . |
| 3 | Alexei allowed himself to dwell upon the knowledge which he had retained from that long-ago survey briefing . |
| 4 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 5 | ‘ But if one party has the power of saying to the other , ‘ that which you require shall not be done except upon the conditions which I choose to impose , ’ no person can contend that they stand upon any thing like an equal footing . |
| 6 | But if one party has the power of saying to the other , ‘ that which you require shall not be done except upon the conditions which I choose to impose , ’ no person can contend that they stand upon any thing like an equal footing . |
| 7 | But if one party has the power of saying to the other , ‘ that which you require shall not be done except upon the conditions which I choose to impose , ’ no person can contend that they stand upon any thing like an equal footing . |
| 8 | In order to overcome these constraints , de Gaulle had to rely chiefly upon himself — upon the powers which he held as president , but more importantly upon the prestige of his name and the authority of his voice . |
| 9 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 10 | Which one to use depends , to some extent , upon the appearance which you wish to achieve , which may be an oiled or waxed appearance , a high gloss , satin or matt finish , and on what is being finished . |
| 11 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 12 | When an analogous problem struck the designers of radar in the Second World War , they hit upon a solution which they called " send/receive " radar . |