Example sentences of "[vb past] upon a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not for a wasteful spendthrift , who preyed upon a gullible old woman ! |
| 2 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | In May 1979 , partly out of desperation , we entered upon a great experiment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 10 | Many miles from camp they came upon a small specimen partially coated with a frothy greenish-tan crust . |
| 11 | They rounded a spur and came upon a small encampment — three or four rude tents , with matting walls and black roofs made from goats ' hair . |
| 12 | They began to meet people in their travelling , and actually came upon a gravelled road that some lord of Ralarth had laid down decades or centuries ago , the wagon ruts deep in it . |
| 13 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 14 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 15 | Finally , to his delight , he came upon a 41-ship convoy from the Baltic , escorted only by a 20-gun sloop , the Countess of Scarborough , and a 44-gun frigate , the Serapis . |
| 16 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |
| 17 | Then , as he turned a corner , he came upon a little house , level with the road , built on concrete stilts above the rocks . |
| 18 | And I forget which of my old colleagues it was who was canvassing , blue rosette ablaze , in a particularly Labour-dominated council estate in Sheffield , when he came upon an elderly voter planting primroses by the door . |
| 19 | Further along she came upon an upturned Welsh dresser with a hand protruding out from underneath it . |
| 20 | Eventually we came upon an empty railway shed with a paved road and a line of street lamps along one side . |
| 21 | Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders ! |
| 22 | Once they came upon an irregularly-shaped room as wide as the grazing meadow on the east bank of the Slow Brochet ; eleven passages led from it . |
| 23 | His renunciation also rested upon a dubious legal sentence of 1202 , a punitive measure against King John by Philip Augustus . |
| 24 | This touched upon a sensitive nerve with regard to confidence in the leadership . |
| 25 | Or , if not the wrong thing , then something which touched upon a sensitive area . |
| 26 | So it was that the two embarked upon a strange relationship . |
| 27 | So I embarked upon a new draft of the Regulations . |
| 28 | I embarked upon a thorough investigation of what causes heart attacks , and I wrote a book called " Why Kill Yourself " ? with Dr Roger Blackwood , Consultant Cardiologist at the Wexham Park Hospital , Slough , who treated me , particularly during the rehabilitation . |
| 29 | Following the integration of Ultramar 's North Sea assets into its portfolio , LASMO embarked upon a major programme of rationalisation . |
| 30 | Despite his literary and artistic upbringing , Percy Gilchrist embarked upon a scientific career . |