Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The types existed because certain basic patterns of animal organization were more efficient than any other conceivable forms , so all species were necessarily based upon one or another of these patterns . |
| 2 | She stared down at the crucifix , wondering desperately how much they knew , whether they had any knowledge of her liaison with Tristram or whether these questions were merely based upon suspicion . |
| 3 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 4 | First as a winger , then as an out-and-out striker , he played an immensely valuable role in the Palace sides of the later years of that decade , culminating in the promotion team of 1969 , in which he was the top scorer with 14 goals , while his five 1st Division goals in 1969–70 were only improved upon at the Palace by proven striker Gerry Queen . |
| 5 | Here was a circumstance where a great number of foreigners , who would be unable to speak the local language , whose customs would be regarded with suspicion , and whose mariner of worship differed significantly , were suddenly thrust upon a remote community . |
| 6 | Thus James Bentham writes of the Fens : ‘ The smallest spots , however , scattered or remote , which first showed themselves above the surrounding waters , were eagerly seized upon by these watchful discoverers , and claimed as part of their allotted reward . ’ |
| 7 | Pope John 's ‘ optimism ’ was later criticized — why should he ignore apocalyptic signs of disaster to concentrate on those that gave grounds for hope ? — but hope was in such short supply in 1961 that his words were eagerly seized upon ( Moltmann , 1977 , p. 368 , n. 64 ; The Extraordinary Synod of 1985 likewise gave a more ‘ pessimistic ’ reading of the ‘ signs of the times ’ ) . |
| 8 | Imperial Japanese ‘ popular names ’ were generally based upon the world of nature ( eg Baika — Plum Blossom , Seiku — Clear Sky , Hayabusa — Peregrine Falcon etc ) . |
| 9 | Any employee at Coniston Mines during the 19th Century would fall into one of two distinct categories : ( 1 ) a dayworker , whose wages were generally based upon a rate of so much per day but which was variable depending upon the degree of skill required , yet at times might be calculated on a piece rate , or , ( 2 ) a miner engaged in winning ore from the stopes , tunnelling , raising , or shaft sinking through rock . |
| 10 | The figures were laboriously commented upon by the commentators and detracted from one 's concentration on the game . |
| 11 | Numerous conflicts within the kingdom were thus centred upon the royal court . |
| 12 | But J. S. Middleton , the Labour Party General Secretary , had set out in a series of published letters to Harry Pollitt , the Communist secretary , the arguments against allowing Communist affiliation : they were largely based upon the fact that the Communists adhered to the Communist International , based in Moscow , and were bound to obey its orders . |
| 13 | The existing schemes in the early and mid-1980s were usually based upon an annual interview by a member of the Senior Management Team of a school , or perhaps a head of department . |
| 14 | The Constitution on the Church , the Decree on Ecumenism and the Decree on Oriental Churches were formally voted upon , and solemnly promulgated . |
| 15 | At a public session on 28 October , five documents ( on the Pastoral Office of Bishops , on Priestly Formation , on Religious Life , on Christian Education and on Non-Christian Religions ) were formally voted upon , and promulgated , as were the documents on Divine Revelation and the Apostolate of the Laity on 18 November . |
| 16 | His eyes were still fixed upon her , and Paige was profoundly aware of the reaction his intense perusal was having on her body . |
| 17 | She carried the ‘ things ’ down and put them in the boudoir , returning for the clothes which she had kicked aside which were still strewn upon the stairs . |
| 18 | The morphology of type II focus was comprised of tightly packed cells , which were extensively piled upon one another and had comparatively smooth edges ( Fig 1A ) . |
| 19 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 20 | Some of his tactics were similarly frowned upon . |
| 21 | In times of civil disturbance they were also called upon to help in maintaining the king 's peace , as when in June 1234 the foresters of fee of all the royal forests of England were commanded to aid the sheriffs in arresting the malefactors who were roaming over the countryside as a result of the disturbances created by the Earl Marshal and his adherents . |
| 22 | Her services were also called upon to charm away warts and cure ringworm in cattle . |
| 23 | Most of these effects were also found upon addition of the various phospholipds species to human biles . |
| 24 | Bollini and Mollica contend that early reports of catastrophic results were often based upon ‘ short visits and superficial knowledge of the Italian mental health care system ’ . |
| 25 | 17th century male dancers were trained to dance female roles and were often called upon to do so in serious works , costumed in such a way as to disguise their gender . |
| 26 | Military forces , usually state militia , were frequently called upon during that period to preserve law and order in violent strike situations . |
| 27 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 28 | The stand we were in was wooden and when a few of the fans tried to light up their cigs. they were immediately pounced upon by the attendants to cordially desist . |
| 29 | The services of Mr C.C. Hunte , policeman/peacemaker and deviser of penalties , former West Indies opening batsman , and career worker for mankind , were immediately called upon . |
| 30 | They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it . |