Example sentences of "[vb -s] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are renegades from the Dwarf Engineers Guild which frowns upon innovation and regards much of the Empire 's new technology as a heinous break with ancient tradition . |
| 2 | For all its talk of fostering artistic freedom and widening participation in the arts , Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture frowns upon middle-brow bourgeois culture and exclusively cultivates either the avant-garde or pop . |
| 3 | Alice Walker focusses upon incest and child abuse in a black family , and portrays a black lesbian relationship as tender and liberating . |
| 4 | Edith Granger 's mother ; she lives upon ‘ the reputation of some diamonds and her family connexions ’ , the chief of whom is her nephew , Lord Feenix . |
| 5 | For life lives upon life : what is life to one is dinner to another ! |
| 6 | The features which appear to unite them are : the arm spines are short and usually appressed ; the arm spine articulation is usually simple , very rudimentary ; oral papillae forming a continuous series and usually either spine-like proximally becoming block-like or block-like throughout ; internally the peristomal plates are double and the genital plate articulates upon the radial shield by means of two condyles and one pit . |
| 7 | ‘ All the responsibility devolves upon me . |
| 8 | But even in that word of highest privilege and relationship there lie hints of another aspect of the Spirit-filled life of Christ that devolves upon his followers . |
| 9 | Again we can see the effect that loss has upon us , where the first stage is shock and disbelief , and an inability to take in the reality of what is being said . |
| 10 | These two preliminary experiments clearly demonstrate the very powerful inhibitory and lytic action which the nasal mucus has upon the M. lysodeikticus . |
| 11 | What Sherman 's circle perhaps does not emphasize sufficiently is the impact that dominant social ideology about the nature of old age has upon personal problems of older people at all levels of experience , emotional , social and financial . |
| 12 | It must be remembered that for all its world status and the great influence it has upon the rest of the airworthiness authorities of the western world , the FAA is after all made up of fallible human beings . |
| 13 | Secondly , it has an interpersonal function : it must fit appropriately into a speech situation , fulfilling the particular social designs that the speaker has upon the hearer . |
| 14 | In each of these cases my method will be to discuss the effects the phenomenon has upon public liability companies , then to make comparison with the other forms in which we are interested . |
| 15 | They need to be aware of the effect which music has upon people , for good and for ill . |
| 16 | The latter fact notwithstanding , the literature is replete with confirmation of the powerful influence that mother 's education has upon levels of infant and , particularly , early childhood mortality in developing and developed countries alike . |
| 17 | There is no trust deed , no trustee and the saver 's claim upon the assets of the trust is only the very general claim that any shareholder has upon a company . |
| 18 | We are therefore concerned with the impact which trade unions and trade union membership has upon the productivity of the workforce . |
| 19 | But that law has upon it a rich gloss of practice , realism , and political sophistication which , I suggest , would preclude a repeat of events such as those which occurred in 1963 . |
| 20 | In the standard account of expansionary monetary policy illustrated in Figure 7.6 , the economy is seen to move from point A to point B very quickly owing to the immediate impact that the increase in the supply of money has upon the rate of interest . |
| 21 | Here then is this man who has this very unusual interview with Jesus Pilate the hard hearted and hard headed governor of Judea , the representative of Caesar the might of imperial Rome and he has upon his hands for trial a man whom he is convinced is innocent . |
| 22 | In court he has to be on the alert every moment and is watched by a highly trained expert on the other side who pounces upon his slightest mistake . |
| 23 | At a time when his life was unsettled and the future uncertain , he returns to the world of his childhood and , in the course of the poem , meditates upon the need for release from the wheel of time itself , " the trailing/Consequence of further days and hours " . |
| 24 | Pierre , who has a summer cottage at Colleville , looks upon the grave as part of his own family . |
| 25 | This is the focus of the Bible , which tells us that while ‘ man looks upon the outward appearance , God looks upon the heart ’ . |
| 26 | This is the focus of the Bible , which tells us that while ‘ man looks upon the outward appearance , God looks upon the heart ’ . |
| 27 | That this intuition can be trained and sharpened I have not the slightest doubt , and I further believe that this is most likely to occur when one looks upon natural phenomena with reverence and humility . |
| 28 | Simone de Beauvoir asserted that ‘ society looks upon old age as a kind of shameful secret that it is unseemly to mention ’ . |
| 29 | George can only advise , issue ultimatums and final warnings , while England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has made it clear how the international camp looks upon bad behaviour . |
| 30 | ( i.e. it is not meaningless ) , whereas Scheler must imply that he looks upon the world with God 's eyes . |