Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is particularly true of social policies , where their impact upon the public depends upon the way they interrelate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Upon the whole you have proved to be |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He turns his back upon the life he has led in this society . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He died later that year having certainly left his mark upon the town he had adopted for his ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Beesley watched the action with his daughter on several successive evenings , and what follows is based upon the account she gave to me . |
| 18 | They approached a blank stone wall and the lad touched certain buttons upon the contraption he wore on his wrist . |
| 19 | Once upon a time he had read a quite terrifying number of books and accumulated an equally terrifying number of opinions about them . |
| 20 | Once upon a time he had instant access to anyone in the office ; now he would telephone and be put on hold . |
| 21 | ‘ Once upon a time I thought I 'd like to go on a trek through a jungle or rain forest . |
| 22 | I , I think I ca I , once upon a time I did on the fixed seating for , for I think you could get about a hundred and twenty round |
| 23 | Once upon a time you made them yourself . |
| 24 | Once upon a time you had a dream — that you lived in a world of simple market forces where everything or everybody had a price or value . |