Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | How , exactly , is he going to let Serafin stumble upon the rooms that are waiting , as I imagine , somewhere rather close to where I am now sitting ? |
| 2 | Effects of income inequality upon productivity |
| 3 | Their ultimate effect on the fish however is generally that of causing severe damage to the skin , fin and gill surfaces upon which they live and feed , and a steady if not rapid decline in the health of the fish . |
| 4 | The assessment proposals will have greater effects upon the curriculum than will the curriculum proposals upon assessment . |
| 5 | To our surprise , we did not observe any influence of age , sex , and body mass index upon the success rate and the recurrence rate ; even the initial number of stones apparently did not influence the recurrence rate , which is in contradiction with the postdissolution experience where the recurrence was higher in patients with multiple stones than with solitary stones . |
| 6 | The difference between the actual intra-trade and the normalised intra-trade is then described as the CU effect upon trade . |
| 7 | Thirdly , the base figure upon which the index is calculated may be updated . |
| 8 | The Biro is by nature a celibate creature which resents spilling its vinle essence upon paper . |
| 9 | However , the Arab states also wished to escape the political impact of the refugee presence upon their own internal stability . |
| 10 | God made the wind blow upon earth and stop the water . |
| 11 | God made the wind blow upon the earth and stop the water . |
| 12 | Erm , God made the wind blow upon the earth and stopped the water . |
| 13 | Traditionally , supply debates were the occasion for a grand attack by opposition parties upon government policy in general and not merely upon the arithmetic of the estimates . |
| 14 | Indeed it could be argued that a family crisis ( for example the suicide of a father ) is bound to have a long term effect upon the child . |
| 15 | Such an aspiration prevailed among some geographers at least partly unaware of first , the revival of interest in human activity ; secondly , the focus in physical geography research upon the magnitude of human impact ; and thirdly , the hazard research that was facilitating closer links between physical and human geography although these links did not impress Johnston ( 1983c ) . |
| 16 | The girl 's move revealed something else — a wedding ring upon her finger . |
| 17 | Unmarried young people , male and female alike , provide a labour force upon which all adults of the communal house may draw , a preparation for the general co-operation upon which the Piaroa place such value among adults within the community . |
| 18 | Electoral studies of the period show that an increasing number of people were making their support for one or other of the main parties conditional upon the calculation of ‘ rational self-interest ’ or ‘ governmental competence ’ , rather than basing their voting upon a ‘ class reflex ’ . |
| 19 | She had looked out of her bedroom window upon an unjust world , upon undeserved sadness , upon concatenation of ill-luck , upon the at least equal odds of sickness , spinsterhood and narrow horizons . |
| 20 | In the parliament of 1371 two Austin friars argued that in a national emergency the prince who has endowed the churches may resume their property for the good of the realm ; about this time Langland was enlarging in Piers Plowman upon Holy Poverty , as were so many friars in their sermons ; before the end of the reign Wyclif , spokesman for Gaunt , especially against his wealthy political enemy , Bishop Wykeham of Winchester , was denying the right of priests to hold any property . |
| 21 | A liberal interpretation to prevent the statute operating upon a casus male inclusus may sometimes be comparatively easy , as it was in Re Sigsworth . |
| 22 | In one of the earlier cases B. ( B.R. ) v. B. ( J. ) [ 1968 ] P. 466 , in which the court authorised the performance of a blood test upon a child of four , Lord Denning M.R. said , at pp. 473–474 : |
| 23 | In 1971 the Industrial Relations Act was passed , which made trade union privileges conditional upon registering and satisfying the Registrar that their internal rules contained minimum safeguards for their members ' rights . |
| 24 | The plan of the Drug Abuse Committee and the Council also involved the commissioning of the research investigation upon which this book is based . |
| 25 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 26 | A pilot study was undertaken first to identify and locate potential users who resided in the West Midlands and secondly to establish the employment and expenditure impacts of the Marina , Marina-related developments and of boat owners upon the local economy . |
| 27 | Afterwards Her Royal Highness , Colonel-in-Chief , The Worcester and Sherwood Foresters Regiment ( 29th/45th Foot ) , received Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lees upon relinquishing his appointment as Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion and Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Peatfield upon assuming the appointment . |
| 28 | Notice that a set of four consecutive bytes could be treated as a word containing a 32-bit binary pattern upon which word instructions can operate , or as a byte string to be operated on by the byte string instructions , or ( possibly ) by the packed decimal instructions . |
| 29 | Prior to participation in a CU and with a tariff rate upon supply from the potential partner and the rest of the world , the lowest priced source of import supply is the rest of the world Pw Sw . |
| 30 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |