Example sentences of "upon a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years later , in 1978 , he joined the Comedy Workshop in his native Houston and stumbled upon a motley team of like-minded souls . |
| 2 | It would be an interminable occupation were it not for the fact that what one learns about the landscape of one town often throws a flash of light upon a topographical puzzle in another . |
| 3 | In Aids to Scoutmastership ( 1919 ) Baden-Powell likened his movement to Montessori 's system of education applied to older youths , recommending this as ‘ the line that eventually education will take when it comes to be set upon a right footing ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 7 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 8 | But below these skilled aristocrats of labour were men in the press shop , who would design a press to mass produce a part , and others who would more likely earn 1s 6d per hour , or less , based upon a piece-work arrangement . |
| 9 | I must , before concluding this erudite monograph , dwell upon a curious anomaly . |
| 10 | It also depends upon a curious form of photosynthesis when it makes sugar from carbon dioxide , water and sunlight . |
| 11 | The guilts and pains he had foisted upon a fictional being would come back in even greater strength to their source , and he knew that he would go mad . |
| 12 | Until we have resolved our uncertainty about what values these modern legal developments represent , our hesitation in embarking upon a radical break with established legal doctrine is surely justified . |
| 13 | Howard realizes that he has hit upon a radical solution to one of the main problems in enjoying a satisfactory life-style . |
| 14 | The Government , while proclaiming itself doctrinally reluctant to impose a settlement upon the industry , had caused Parliament to pronounce upon a major issue in the dispute . |
| 15 | Following the integration of Ultramar 's North Sea assets into its portfolio , LASMO embarked upon a major programme of rationalisation . |
| 16 | His own analysis of the abolition of the Greater London Council stresses that it was ‘ a policy folly rather than a rational decision … the government embarked upon a major initiative as an unintended ill-considered by-product of its other policies ’ ( 1987 , p. 212 ) . |
| 17 | Another family of psychologists embarked upon a similar project in the late 1940s . |
| 18 | Effective communication of the gospel depends not only upon a thorough understanding of the content of the message , but also on an ability to relate that message to the contemporary situation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | CLUEDO FAMILY STUMBLE UPON A REAL BODY ! |
| 21 | He shrugged , spreading his arms wide , then threw himself down upon a threadbare chaise-longue , his hands behind his head . |
| 22 | Inside the circle was a huge altar stone , about thirty-feet across , upon a raised dais . |
| 23 | Once again it was hoped to postpone a settlement and place faith upon a personal union between the royal families of the two countries to resolve the outcome of the old dispute between them . |
| 24 | The effects of retirement can only be understood on an individual basis , its significance depending upon a personal interpretation of the value and importance of work , and what the individual wants and expects from the rest of his or her life . |
| 25 | Henry and Louis had in effect entered upon a private treaty of peace , against the wishes of many of their most powerful subjects . |
| 26 | Land and the Nation was a rather trenchant report based upon a private investigation into the ownership and use of rural land . |
| 27 | If Morrissey is making comments based upon a private mythology , then he ought to realise that a hell of a lot is lost in translation . |
| 28 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 29 | Raking through the out-of-date but always interesting ‘ History ’ shelves at a local second-hand bookshop several days later , I chanced upon a thirteen-year-old volume , titled Sieges of the Great Civil War , by Brigadier Peter Young and Wilfrid Emberton . |
| 30 | Until last year the firm Banyan 's only offering was a native network operating system built upon a customised version of Unix V. 3.2 for Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms , which hid Unix from the user . |