Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel wool and soap filled pads are useful although much frowned upon by many authorities . |
| 2 | The demands of the workers were more than ever focused upon political change . |
| 3 | The term representation is used here as it suggests that ideas are constructed rather than simply reflected upon or passively received . |
| 4 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 5 | Hope lay only in the possibility , the fairly strong possibility , that he was one of those who do not push themselves forward into police investigations unless directly called upon . |
| 6 | From the late 1970s the debate around the imaging of women 's bodies was furthered , particularly in the UK and New York , by the work of those artists and theoreticians who wished to remove the body of woman from view while instead concentrating upon notions of femininity , replacing the bodies of a women as sites which produced struggle , with womanliness as a named site of struggle . |
| 7 | The project , whilst initially focusing upon the requirements of the service sector , will be extended to incorporate a variety of other industries thus providing more extensive ‘ test-beds ’ in which the model can be developed . |
| 8 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 9 | To maintain the law of purity as equally binding upon men and women . |
| 10 | Well — I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments , two of which I can only describe , the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me . |
| 11 | The Research Councils , and other funding bodies , who have rated the research proposals of potential Ph D candidates highly in competition with many others , have not as yet insisted upon the communication of research results by publication , although this would have provided an objective assessment of the worth of the research . |
| 12 | Containerized shipment is inconsistent with the prohibition against transhipment , as commonly insisted upon by applicants , in commercial letters of credit . |
| 13 | But the process of change , when seriously embarked upon , was indeed swift . |