Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of rosy stone upon the gospel 's double leaf , |
| 2 | Healthy eating plays an important role in CCG 's service as Mike Queen commented , ‘ We are currently building upon the Council 's existing healthy eating policies and are using their Herbie cartoon character to help promote healthy eating to the pupils . ’ |
| 3 | To be taxed in four successive years was without precedent , yet this was not the only burden which fell upon the king 's lay subjects . |
| 4 | As expected ( UX No 424 ) , Kubota Pacific Inc , Santa Clara , California , yesterday announced the availability of Titan 2.0 — now renamed Denali — a line of three-dimensional graphical and imaging subsystems for Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha AXP workstations running the OSF/1 operating system and built upon the firm 's own custom chip technology . |
| 5 | It is a telling commentary upon parliament but even more so upon the church 's limited political potency : at that stage , the clergy needed the support not just of the commons but of the peers as well in order to defend effectively their privileges and franchises ; repeal was effected in the council and chiefly through the agency of the lords ; when the prelates contemplated a riposte in convocation they were instantly quelled by writs of prohibition . |
| 6 | These clauses unilaterally abrogated Spain 's 1851 Concordat with Rome and , when carried into law during the next eighteen months , signalled an all-out legislative assault upon the Church 's influential position within Spanish life . |
| 7 | It needs no great imagination to gauge the effect of all this upon the church 's pastoral mission , particularly when we bear in mind the numbers of royal presentations cited above . |
| 8 | Its extended opening hours uptown to 8 p.m. six nights a week and downtown to 10 p.m. on Thursday , Friday and Saturday , will trawl a large local audience at a time when the Whitney Museum is closing on Monday and Tuesday , as will its heavyweight exhibition programme , concentrating upon the century 's major historical developments and established personalities . |
| 9 | " Did the service men come ? " asked Clara , feeling some word required of her , and yet not daring to comment upon the story 's true import . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , imitation makes special demands upon the child 's pragmatic skills and may not , therefore , always provide an accurate indication of the child 's ability to produce language spontaneously ( Ingram 1974 ) or of the child 's underlying linguistic competence ( Slobin and Welsh 1973 ) . |
| 11 | Not least amongst these would be the inevitable Hawthorne effect on the teaching methods employed and , perhaps , the unacceptable intrusion upon the child 's educational experience . |
| 12 | Nonetheless the resurgence of anti-American feeling within sections of the Labour party — feeling which had been broadly silenced by Soviet moves from 1948 — persisted , and it was further stimulated by the sharp increases in British defence spending and the damaging effects these had upon the government 's domestic programme . |
| 13 | I am hopeful that it does not impinge upon the game 's great amateur status — I leave that sort of thing to the likes of Naas Botha and David Campese . |
| 14 | The route to follow from this manual depends largely upon the reader 's special interests : |
| 15 | is based upon the president 's formal authority as well as his prestige and legitimacy within the Washington community and the nation as a whole . |
| 16 | This resembles an agency agreement with restraints imposed upon the agent 's express authority . |
| 17 | An award under the head of pain and suffering depends as Lord Scarman said in Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC at p188 , upon the plaintiff 's personal awareness of pain and her capacity for suffering . |
| 18 | In turn , they would receive information from elsewhere in Scotland and be able to call upon the association 's greater muscle to aid their local fights . |
| 19 | Two of the characteristics of Weber 's ideal type — authority and expertise — are essentially incompatible , since expertise is based upon technical competence , and authority upon the bureaucrat 's legal powers ( Parsons 1947 , p. 58 ) . |
| 20 | The focus upon the offender 's unjust enrichment is also questionable for two reasons . |
| 21 | He concentrated upon the doctor 's neat , white shirt , his thin , anxious neck and his general air of having just surfaced from some particularly nasty branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 22 | Yet again , he preyed upon the sensitivity of all Spaniards to the spectre of renewed civil war and upon the Right 's deeply-rooted fear of democratic values , to make the idea of his own indispensibility prevail . |
| 23 | The Eckenstein–Crowley expedition of 1902 to K2 , the first attempt upon the world 's second highest mountain , reached a height unsurpassed for over two decades . |
| 24 | Municipal legal restrictions upon a State 's treaty-making powers can not support a claim of treaty invalidity unless the domestic restrictions are manifest and concern an internal law of fundamental importance . |
| 25 | In fact , cross-national differences in bargaining structures have been shown to produce a very significant impact upon a country 's entire industrial relations system . |
| 26 | However , it is not the description of disability that matters , but rather its effect upon a person 's major life activities . |