Example sentences of "be [verb] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Convention has been binding upon the United Kingdom since 1953 . |
| 2 | Onerous responsibilities are heaped upon the man in the White House , but many obstacles are placed in his way as he attempts to meet those responsibilities . |
| 3 | You are drawing upon a more ancient and powerful source of memory than me , or Huxley , or the boys , his sons , Christian and Steven — and God alone knows what happened to them . ’ |
| 4 | On the contrary , we are drawing upon the consensus of unbiased contemporary New Testament scholarship . |
| 5 | Coupon values had been placed upon every conceivable article , and henceforth it would be illegal to buy anything without surrendering the appropriate number of clothing coupons . |
| 6 | By contrast , in the United States ( and some would argue in Britain ) , greater emphasis has been placed upon the attainment of shorter-term economic gains for their own members , although broader considerations of social justice and ‘ movement ’ are by no means absent . |
| 7 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |
| 8 | A very strong emphasis has been placed upon the desirability of living in suburbs or in semi-rural areas . |
| 9 | In working through the accounts particular emphasis has been placed upon the nature of the theoretical arguments involved . |
| 10 | It will also be recollected that so many qualifications have been placed upon the decision in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) that the concept of foreseeability is now applied in a very broad and liberal manner and there is unlikely to be much practical difference between an inquiry whether a consequence is foreseeable or natural . |
| 11 | Too much emphasis had been placed upon the strengthening of security by military rather than political means , and this had placed an undue burden on the domestic economy . |
| 12 | This is rather like putting the cart before the horse and it is very difficult later to take up the study of the horse when all previous emphasis has been placed upon the cart ! |
| 13 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 14 | Emphasis has been placed upon the clinical aspects of infection and relevant questions on basic microbiology and pathology have therefore been included . |
| 15 | Such a criterion is notoriously elusive , but in determining the precise legal status of a statement some reliance has been placed upon the point during the negotiations at which the statement was made . |
| 16 | Decisions are issued by either the Commission or the Council of Ministers : they derive directly from the authority given to them by the Treaty of Rome or from previously issued directives or regulations , and they too are binding upon the governments to which they are addressed . |
| 17 | The vanishing points for horizontal lines are located upon the horizon . |
| 18 | Light has recently been shed upon the organism causing Whpple 's disease . |
| 19 | The idea had long been mooted , but no other lighthouse had yet been built upon a rock and many deemed it impossible . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Christianity has been built upon a classic image of martyrhood : Christ on the cross . |
| 21 | And in Great Britain there is the Atomic Weapons Establishment which has been built upon a World War Two airfield in the countryside of Berkshire , 50 miles from London and overlooking the Thames Valley . |
| 22 | The prestige enjoyed by many of our primary schools , the way in which they are valued by the parent body , has been built upon the work of teachers who have realised that they have a role both within the school and outside it . |
| 23 | I recently obtained permission to search the grounds of a medieval house which had been built upon the site of a wall- enclosed 14th century residence . |
| 24 | Virtual Personal Computing — the attractive use of graphics , colour , sound and the ‘ mouse ’ which have eased the acceptance of AppleMacs and PCs at this University , have been built upon the high bandwidth once only available between components of a single personal computer . |
| 25 | Gains made by the trust on 1 June 1994 ( ie after 5 April 1994 ) are taxed upon the trustees as if they were gains made by a foreign trust . |
| 26 | I know that they will draw considerable interest from the buying public when they are revealed upon the front pages of certain newspapers this coming Sunday . |
| 27 | Kazakhstan 's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Uzbekistan 's President Islam Karimov both condemned the way in which the draft treaty had been thrust upon the republics by the centre , and took the same line as the Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin in arguing that it should be the republics ' prerogative to dictate what powers the centre should retain . |
| 28 | Once the topics have been decided upon the questions will have a framework to fit into . |
| 29 | Both are built upon the base hardware technology developed by Acer for the 3000MP AcerFrame box . |
| 30 | In The Future of an Illusion , the use of the term ‘ religion ’ is one which fits the Jewish-Islamic-Christian complex of religions , which are built upon the notion of a Creator God . |