Example sentences of "[verb] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faraday showed to his satisfaction that the muscles of those pressing upon a table in a seance moved before the table did rather than in response to its motions ; he considered further investigation a waste of time . |
| 2 | Certainly not for a wasteful spendthrift , who preyed upon a gullible old woman ! |
| 3 | From this suggestion developed the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) which has to some extent moved discussion away from process to concentrate upon a measurable product . |
| 4 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 5 | It drew upon a general concern to reduce the working day ; then , with renewed confidence , attempts were made to extend the struggle by forcing a closed shop . |
| 6 | The heroism portrayed as necessary to triumph over the slave trade drew upon a sense of working in harmony with fellow reformers , fired in part by an ideologically convergent commitment and of acting upon that commitment in similar ways . |
| 7 | As we have noted , the Celtic Church drew upon a broad spectrum of texts beyond Rome 's sphere of influence — Nazarean texts , Nestorian texts , Priscillianist texts , Gnostic and Manichaean texts , books of both Judaic and ‘ Christian ’ apocrypha . |
| 8 | It drew upon a series of speeches he had made in the late autumn , particularly an address to an all-union student forum . |
| 9 | Matthew drew upon a long-standing belief that the flora and fauna of Eurasia were dominant over those of the rest of the world and combined this with the paleontologist 's theory of the periodic explosion of new types at certain points in the fossil record . |
| 10 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 11 | The post-1979 managerial emphasis in central administration was not wholly new : indeed , it started from much the same principle as Fulton — that civil servants needed to adopt a more business-like approach and drew upon a number of Fulton 's ideas about departmental organization ( see Chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 12 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 13 | The relation of this authority to the other officials of the state , indeed to the sultan himself , must , however , wait upon a discussion of the further historical development of the Muftilik , a subject to which it is now necessary to turn . |
| 14 | A year ago in Liverpool , a boy was caught upon a Sunday evening in the act of stealing a handkerchief out of somebody 's pocket and was arrested . |
| 15 | Two boys , perched upon a wall , surprise |
| 16 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 17 | A new means-tested superannuation scheme was announced to replace the existing guaranteed retirement income — thereby reneging upon a National Party election promise — the age of entitlement lifted progressively from 60 to 65 years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Construct theory however presents a clear pattern of how unique , individual experience is brought to bear upon a situation , of how constructs are applied whether they are appropriate or not , and how the theoretical framework forming the basis of a personal construct system is constantly revised . |
| 21 | Armed with such views , Mosley entered upon a turbulent political career which saw him move from being the Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918 to , after several political adjustments , becoming Labour MP for Smethwick in 1926 . |
| 22 | In May 1979 , partly out of desperation , we entered upon a great experiment . |
| 23 | There he entered upon a course of wild living and then , in the providence of God , he was sent to Portadown . |
| 24 | There is no trust deed , no trustee and the saver 's claim upon the assets of the trust is only the very general claim that any shareholder has upon a company . |
| 25 | Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated . |
| 26 | Some local authorities have committees organised upon a , particular client group basis such as women , ethnic minorities , the disabled and so on . |
| 27 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 28 | Keres were often described as hovering , on outstretched wings , above a battlefield , for their favourite pastime was to swoop upon a warrior at the point of his death and suck the blood from his mortal wounds . |
| 29 | A child who has been stretched emotionally and imaginatively in fashioning a pot from a lump of clay or weaving upon a simple loom will come , through the process of doing , to learn much about himself and gain some understanding of the pain , pleasure and struggle which underpin craftsmanship . |
| 30 | To impose upon a man who , through natural causes , has been made ill to a certain extent , very grave injuries such as were sustained by this plaintiff and which reduces his capacity to bear natural ill health , is in my judgment more likely to increase than reduce damages . |