Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a general view that all women held within them the potential to become hysterical ; from ‘ nervous ’ to ‘ hysteric ’ to insane was a sliding scale , and all women were positioned somewhere upon it . |
| 2 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 3 | theses , only two published books ( her own ( 1977 ) and that of Singh ( 1978 ) ) were based substantially upon primary empirical research within prisons . |
| 4 | Hailey 's reservations about Indirect Rule were based purely upon the practical consideration that in its dogmatic insistence on working only through the authentic traditional leadership it excluded other , possibly more effective , methods of securing the essential ‘ degree of acquiescence ’ in British rule . |
| 5 | An angry crowd attacked the troops , and rescued the prisoners , and their cattle were loosed again upon the common . |
| 6 | The collapse of the previous International was also attributed by Lenin to the deviant ideology of its leaders and the Comintern was consequently designed in see that orthodoxy was imposed centrally upon all sections . |
| 7 | The door was closed firmly upon her . |
| 8 | This cycle of growth , which was based primarily upon exports , reached its peak in 1986-88 , when the annual rate of growth was in excess of 12 per cent . |
| 9 | There is the possibility of some influence from craftsmen working to the south , around Water Newton , who specialised in the manufacture of geometric designs , but their work was based largely upon lozenge configurations and can not have been a major source of inspiration . |
| 10 | Initial selection was based solely upon Stirling 's impressions of the men at brief interviews . |
| 11 | Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) . |
| 12 | Like them , it was based originally upon the household , and the household continued to have significance even after the formation of other less personal structures . |
| 13 | I was stretched full-length upon the bodies , my battered hand resting on the rim of the tub . |
| 14 | Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs . |
| 15 | North Korea was forced more upon itself as a result of American success in manipulating UN recognition of the ROK . |
| 16 | The report also drew attention to the fact that no information was collated specifically upon graduate unemployment until 1932 — so this could be the worst recession ever , in terms of graduate opportunities . |
| 17 | In the wake of Warrington , the simple dignity of Colin Parry , as he told how his son , Tim , died when his life support machine was switched off , was branded instantly upon the brain of the nation . |
| 18 | Scholarly ink , mixed with scholarly gall , was poured forth upon this fascinating and wholly insoluble mystery . |