Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building a stock exclusively upon the results of this kind of study is bound to lead eventually to some distortion between requirements and provision . |
| 2 | Transgressive reinscription : a turning back upon something and a perverting of it typically it not exclusively through inversion and displacement . |
| 3 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 4 | Knowledge of these findings made a similar study , but with a focus solely upon mentally frail elderly people , an interesting proposition . |
| 5 | Er typing then , which seems to be generally satisfactory , although a bit of a hole in upon sub team one , it was a |
| 6 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |