Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] upon a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He discusses the problems which occur in getting the user department and the computer department to agree upon a specification and the prolonged timescales often involved . |
| 2 | The decision to embark upon a hotel or catering enterprise and the form that business will take are closely linked with the acquisition of suitable premises . |
| 3 | In practice much more of counselling focuses upon perceptions and feelings rather than upon facts and the end result most commonly is helping the sufferer to focus upon a question rather than an answer . |
| 4 | Wreathed in trails of cigarette smoke , I had a burning desire to leap upon a chair and harangue the multitude . |
| 5 | Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education . |
| 6 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 7 | The translation of bifocal vision to design upon a canvas was a major concern of Cézanne . |
| 8 | The opposition had wanted HAT takeovers to depend upon a majority of those eligible to vote , but the government insisted upon only a simple majority of those voting . |
| 9 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |
| 10 | If the creditor knew that the surety , whilst understanding the nature of the liability he or she was accepting , was in fact acting under the influence of the debtor , then it would not be safe for the creditor to rely upon a document executed in these circumstances , unless it believed on reasonable grounds that the surety had in fact received independent advice . |
| 11 | For example , environmental considerations have prompted the company to embark upon a halon replacement programme resulting in a range of alternative systems . |
| 12 | If he decided to accede to the request — and precedent suggested that it would be very difficult for him to refuse it — then he would have a further 60 days to appoint a panel to decide upon a prosecutor . |