Example sentences of "[vb pp] upon and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the motion is voted upon and has been carried , it becomes the resolution of the meeting . |
| 2 | These are defined as follows and will then be expanded upon and considered in turn . |
| 3 | For centuries , from Captain Cook and Conrad to Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson , westerners have fed upon and nurtured these myths . |
| 4 | Once you have measured the window , decide where the hardware — the tracks and screws and so on — is going to go ( above the frame ; overlapping the sides ; tucked neatly inside a recess ) ; buy what you have decided upon and install it before you start calculating the fabric . |
| 5 | Will the Minister give a commitment that the present adult education programme will be built upon and secured , or are the Government pulling the ladder away from thousands of our fellow citizens who have prospered from adult education in the past ? |
| 6 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 7 | They have been built upon and have adapted that which already existed . |
| 8 | This scientism took as axiomatic that systematic and reasoned study , its methods reflected upon and sanctified by epistemology , could generate ‘ truth ’ . |
| 9 | In these social security provisions we see a set of values and institutional arrangements which condition the position and experience of those out of work , and which is both premised upon and reinforces a male-dominated notion of unemployment . |
| 10 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 11 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 12 | There should be a branch recruitment strategy ( broadly the same for each branch ) which is agreed upon and taken as the personal responsibility of a nominated Branch Recruitment Secretary . |
| 13 | There should be a branch recruitment strategy ( broadly the same for each branch ) which is agreed upon and taken as the personal responsibility of a nominated Branch Recruitment Secretary . |
| 14 | Many skills already in the social worker 's repertoire can be drawn upon and applied to the design and conduct of research on practice issues . |
| 15 | The most important element of this optimism is that the counselling approach implies that growth is a continuous process during which our potential capacities can be drawn upon and developed at any period of life , including old age . |
| 16 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 17 | Here then , amongst the Lugbara , we see a thoroughly moralistic creed , based upon and administered by ancestor spirits , and applied for and to the benefit of the village elders . |
| 18 | This derived largely from fears amongst Latin American ruling groups of a threat to their own positions , concerns which have been played upon and reinforced by Great Britain in the 1920s because of its considerable stake in the Argentine economy , and subsequently by the United States . |
| 19 | The parallelism between these two rhythms and performance has been commented upon and illustrated before . |
| 20 | The allegations made in the Summons should , assuming proper investigation , be capable of being commented upon and answered . |
| 21 | When they go to a match they are as a matter of course spat upon and jostled , threatened and assaulted ’ — The Times . |
| 22 | Palms were spat upon and smacked together . |
| 23 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 24 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
| 25 | At that time Ulthuan was rent asunder with confusion and treachery , and any messenger or scout was liable to be set upon and slain by the many factions roaming the land . |
| 26 | He was set upon and punched as he walked near the park 's tennis courts and the robbers made off with his wallet and jacket . |
| 27 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 28 | The Revd Edward Chichester published a pamphlet in 1818 entitled Oppressions and Cruelties of Irish Revenue Officers , in which he described how , in 1810 , a detachment of the army led by Coffey was set upon and disarmed by the country people near Culdaff in Inishowen , and he himself was beaten ‘ until he was supposed to be dead ’ . |
| 29 | In 1563 one Hoppringle had been set upon and murdered in his house by a joint force of Armstrongs and Elliots , which gave rise to a long Border feud . |
| 30 | Here , in the summer of the year 778 , the rear guard of the army of the Christian King Charlemagne , on its way back into France from Spain and from warring with the paynim hordes of Islam , was set upon and routed . |