Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ‘ forget ’ pop is to renege fundamentally upon the ( over-determining ) intentions of punk . |
| 2 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 3 | It may be that several disciplines can be brought to bear fruitfully upon an area ( Europe ) , period ( Enlightenment ) , problem ( traffic congestion ) , or theme ( Pastoral ) while still maintaining their distinct identity ; in which case the term ‘ multidisciplinary ’ ( OECD 1972 ) becomes appropriate . |
| 4 | If an adviser proposes to comment adversely upon the work of an individual teacher at a meeting he should inform the teacher and give him an opportunity to reply . |
| 5 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |
| 7 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 8 | Nucella might be expected to select its prey in a frequency dependent manner ; that is , to feed indiscriminately upon the various potential prey species , taking them in their order of occurrence . |
| 9 | The real value of the results actually achieved has been a most gratifying surprise to everyone concerned , and it is easy , after the event , to reflect wisely upon the fact that a large percentage of the men must have served a long and painful apprenticeship , whilst on Military Service , to the art of transforming swamps into ‘ better 'oles ’ . |
| 10 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 11 | They burnt Brighton in 1544 , forcing the settlement to grow finally upon the cliffs rather than down on the beach , threatened by the French and ‘ Neptune 's insatiate womb ’ . |
| 12 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 13 | There were tribunals which had jurisdiction if a certain state of facts existed but not otherwise ; it was not then for the inferior tribunal to determine conclusively upon the existence of such facts . |
| 14 | We shall notice in a little how he was to build further upon the foundations laid in 1927 , and what a distinctive theology resulted . |
| 15 | One of its major concerns has always been the securing and protection of fundamental human rights , and it sought to build further upon the UN Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948 . |
| 16 | The Regional Resource Centre at Exeter University Institute of Education hopes to build further upon the network possibilities in this respect , making the teachers ' centres the teacher-entry points to an informal organization of schools , colleges , polytechnics , the university and other agencies , including individuals in the community ( Walton and Ruck 1975 ) , and we shall be examining such possibilities in closer detail in a later chapter . |
| 17 | ( 122 ) Criminals have been known to jest even upon the scaffold . |
| 18 | 3.3 While it may be sufficient , in practical terms , to know that the assessment of damages for pain and suffering or other non-primary loss , is , in any particular case , going to depend largely upon the amounts awarded in previous cases which are perceived to be similar , or at least , where there are no such cases , upon the generality of awards of compensation for injury of that general type , that is unsatisfactory as a conceptual basis of compensation . |
| 19 | Within the new universities one response to this perception of student " inadequacy " was to engage in a certain amount of disciplinary " cross-fertilization " ; and to depend more upon the " civilizing power " of a few " great books " considered to have some contemporary " relevance " than upon a " professional " approach to English studies . |
| 20 | She leaned down to check closely upon the steady rise and fall of his chest , and the slight , rhythmic warmth of the air expelled from his lungs . |