Example sentences of "upon a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was accused of the crime of murder and manslaughter which is reputed odious and atrocious , severely punishable with loss of life and confiscation of the movable property of the committer thereof , that he did upon a day in the previous September unknown with force and violence cast and throw one CHRISTIAN McMILLAN the wife of DONALD McKENZIE in Ellister over a rock at Ellister shore , where they had gone to collect shellfish , into the deep sea where she was immediately drowned and died . |
| 2 | When we can look upon a man in the same way ( not that this is necessarily desirable ) then the world will have changed . |
| 3 | Silent , upon a peak in Darien |
| 4 | Silent , upon a peak in Darien . |
| 5 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah feel like stout Cortés , silent upon a peak in Darien . ’ |
| 7 | Skilled reading depends upon a flexibility in the application of component subskills , and so it is with all skills . |
| 8 | Dr Neil had seen her few poor items of food decently arranged upon a napkin in the bottom of the basket , and there seemed little doubt that she was actually living in the district — although why he could not imagine . |
| 9 | poet sat upon a stool in a public place , a , |
| 10 | This new hawkish perspective builds upon a strand in US policy going back at least to Kennedy , which argues that the USA must possess a force structure that would enable a nuclear war to be fought and won ( Ikle , 1973 ) . |
| 11 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 12 | He relied upon a passage in the judgment of this court in Reg. v. Jelen ( 1989 ) 90 Cr.App.R. 456 . |
| 13 | As to ( b ) , the rule that if A 's goods are feloniously taken by B , A may follow them onto C's land rests upon a passage in Blackstone which commended itself to two of the judges in Anthony v. Haney . |
| 14 | On security issues Meckel maintained during a debate in the Volkskammer ( unicameral parliament ) on April 26 that membership of NATO was not the government 's aim , and would be conditional upon a change in the structures of the Western Alliance . |
| 15 | The techniques of applied econometrics could not be deployed upon a hypothesis in which most of the relevant variables could not be directly measured and in which the focus of attention was continually shifting sometimes leapfrogging was the problem , sometimes real wage resistance , sometimes a Marxian class struggle for shares in the national income , but at most times some miscellany of all three problems was present contemporaneously . |
| 16 | Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time . |
| 17 | Receipt of dividends will depend in any event upon a declaration in accordance with whatever procedures may be specified in the company 's articles . |
| 18 | Adam Smith ( 1723–1790 ) and the Scottish philosophers and economists construct their principles of capitalist economics upon a belief in the rights of individuals to pursue their own wealth and happiness . |
| 19 | We seem to be on firmer ground , however , if we suggest that a singer who draws upon a training in the English choral tradition will not readily perform in a way that is bogus , trivial or solipsistic , for the choral tradition is none of those things ; it embodies the results of countless individual strivings for the best results in conformity to a communal discipline . |
| 20 | Peter studied astronomy at University College , London , and worked in accountancy for a short spell before deciding upon a career in nursing . |
| 21 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST |
| 22 | 1969 — ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST |
| 23 | America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST . |
| 24 | Once upon a time in Belfast there were bands like Stiff Little Fingers and Rudi . |
| 25 | De Niro , curiously takes a back seat , indeed , content to re-invent Noodles ( Once Upon A Time In America ) with a darker , more sadistic bent . |
| 26 | Duel , Born Yesterday — I know , I KNOW — The Front Page ( version one ) , Forty-Second Street , Cabaret , The Philadelphia Story , Calamity Jane , The Sunshine Boys , Camille Claudel , One Upon a Time in America , Crossing Delancy , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Reds , ET , Brief Encounter … |
| 27 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 28 | De Niro , curiously takes a back seat , indeed , content to re-invent Noodles ( Once Upon A Time In America ) with a darker , more sadistic bent . |
| 29 | Thomas Albert Biggs , a born-deaf man employed as a coachman at Bristol , was out on bail on 13 charges of bicycle theft on 3rd June 1905 when he came upon a drama in the River Avon at a point where the river was over twenty feet deep and dangerous . |
| 30 | The " right of reply " privilege was established by the House of Lords in the case of Adam v Ward : The plaintiff , an officer but not a gentleman , used his position as an MP to make a vindictive attack upon a General in his former regiment . |