Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the sea waybill allows the ship to unload the bulk shipment immediately upon arrival , thereby reducing the time and cost of unloading and processing the cargo , and also lowering the costs of warehousing and maintaining goods in inventory . |
| 2 | ‘ I am fit , ’ he persisted , holding Llewelyn fast by the sleeve , for he was apt to flash away from armoury to store and stable to council chamber disconcertingly upon his universal errand of supervision . |
| 3 | Indeed , he kept them closed as he opened the Gospels , and planted his long index finger blindly upon the page . |
| 4 | Both maternal age and order of birth bear independently upon the probability of alate fetal death ( Table 15 ) . |
| 5 | The Committee , with the support of the Resource Planning & Finance Committee , initiated a twelve-month pilot scheme whereby upon payment of a lump sum by the student society , all students at the School of Architecture , De Montfort University automatically became student members of the RIBA . |
| 6 | And nowhere did he appear alone : never , it seemed , had Dorothy turned the viewfinder of the old box Brownie deliberately upon her husband . |
| 7 | As we have seen , wood depends for its defences against crack propagation partly upon Jeronimidis ' work of fracture contrivance — which ensures that the critical Griffith crack length is a long one — and also , by way of a further safety device , upon the Cook-Gordon mechanism for stopping any crack which gets past George . |
| 8 | well I had a Triumph Herald once upon a time , everything with that was bolted on |