Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem an unimportant omission : we are rarely called upon to deal with spoken or written non-words in the course of day-to-day linguistic activities . |
| 2 | Carnivores themselves are rarely preyed upon by other animals . |
| 3 | Typhoid : The illness which produced the Widow of Windsor , from an insanitary state of the drains there , which has not been greatly improved upon in much of the world . |
| 4 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 5 | ‘ Men that are much fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’ |
| 6 | Two other features of this anniversary have not been sufficiently remarked upon . |
| 7 | ‘ We are basically looked upon as the end of things , ’ says Richard Faulkner . |
| 8 | All big changes in her young life had been suddenly thrust upon her . |
| 9 | Here they are so clustered upon each other ; court within court , yard within yard , and lane within lane , in a manner to defy description … . |
| 10 | George , it has been much commented upon , likes a key phrase , one that sticks and simmers in the jury 's mind . |
| 11 | like most of these these have , erm what I want to know is er why , when I was disposed of as you like as a useless article , why I am suddenly called upon by this government to be one hundred per cent , not fifty per cent responsible , but one hundred per cent responsible , not only for my children which I 'm quite happy to do , but one hundred per cent responsible to keep my wife off of benefit and one hundred per cent responsible if she should ever want one , t for her partner . |
| 12 | The tenants will normally be answerable to the landlord for the use they make of the property , and certain restrictions are normally agreed upon and are contained in the covenants in the lease . |
| 13 | The early stages of long term problems are already visited upon us . |
| 14 | WITHOUT WISHING to divulge too many trade secrets , if you 're ever called upon to interview an Australian punk rock band , the first question is a cinch . |
| 15 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 16 | There she had been rudely thrown upon the hard ground and had been forced to defend herself . |
| 17 | Topical creams , such as the hip and thigh cream which I used , are usually based upon plant extracts which affect the circulation just below the skin . |
| 18 | Theories in the traditional natural sciences are usually based upon icons of generative processes rather than knowledge of the generative processes themselves , and we are not unhappy to be in that company . |
| 19 | Decisions are usually reached upon a motion being put to the meeting . |
| 20 | They are usually called upon to advise management in situations where the company is exposed to adverse opinion . |
| 21 | Unlike the Security Council , it has no power to force any government to act on its recommendations but , because those recommendations carry the weight of world opinion behind them , they are usually acted upon . |
| 22 | The court has been told that that order has not been formally served upon the mother , but there is no question but that she knows of its existence and its terms . |
| 23 | We will halt the deterioration which has taken place in the pay and conditions of many public service workers — often through pay settlements which have been arbitrarily imposed upon them . |
| 24 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |
| 25 | Aggressiveness and excess competitiveness are also frowned upon . |
| 26 | Temporarily employed engineers and scientists and technicians are mainly engaged upon fixed contracts , as are skilled operatives and craftsmen ( other than in construction ) . |
| 27 | Semi and unskilled operatives are mainly engaged upon a seasonal , temporary or casual basis . |
| 28 | In addition Board and senior managers from other organisations are often called upon to bring their valuable experiences to the Programme . |
| 29 | Although this is not easy , because comparisons are often made upon data emerging from different initial observations as well as different responses , it does seem to provide an approach whereby the effects of learning can be discerned and differences between the judgments of experts and the inexperienced identified . |
| 30 | But the results are often seized upon in an ill-digested way by popular writers , occasionally the scientists themselves , as confirming that the animals have the linguistic competence and cognitive awareness of human beings . |