Example sentences of "upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 2 | It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh , the deposit , little cell by cell , of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions . |
| 3 | Purple and blue , the lurid shadows of the hollow breakers are cast upon the mist of night , which gathers cold and low , advancing like the shadow of death upon the guilty ship as it labours amid the lightening of the sea , its thin mast written upon the sky , in lines of blood … |
| 4 | Purple and blue , the lurid shadows of the hollow breakers are cast upon the mist of night , which gathers cold and low , advancing like the shadow of death upon the guilty ship as it labours amid the lightening of the sea , its thin mast written upon the sky , in lines of blood … |
| 5 | Purple and blue , the lurid shadows of the hollow breakers are cast upon the mist of night , which gathers cold and low , advancing like the shadow of death upon the guilty ship as it labours amid the lightening of the sea , its thin mast written upon the sky , in lines of blood … |
| 6 | Though it must be remembered that this is no a priori scheme imposed upon the appearances , but rather an interpretation gradually distilled from them by prolonged contemplation . |
| 7 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 8 | A little earlier , a view of Eliot 's has been paraphrased : that ‘ there is no ‘ truth ’ to be found ’ in the world , ‘ only a number of styles and interpretations — one laid upon the other in an endless and apparently meaningless process ’ . |
| 9 | Much in the same vein is Henry V who has several well known ‘ set ’ speeches , full of fireworks , as well as the difficult and testing soliloquy on the responsibility of leadership that begins ‘ Upon the King … |
| 10 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 11 | The organization of presbyterianism rests strongly upon the local community , with its division of authority between minister and elders . |
| 12 | There is a resonance of protestant beliefs in their unchurched experience , their rough , straight-from-the-shoulder speech , their interpretation of history and tradition , and solidarity at the economic level based on their dependency upon the leadership of the group as a whole for their work and welfare . |
| 13 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 14 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 15 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |
| 16 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |
| 17 | Drawing upon the culinary cred associated with ‘ motherhood ’ , the ARC found an Académie des Mères Cuisinières for its more venerable members in 1990 . |
| 18 | You can rely upon the observations of Sven Hjerson for this . |
| 19 | The very word ‘ Mystery ’ could not provide a much heavier clue , and I am bold to assert that Agatha Christie 's inspiration to write mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot sprang directly from her reading of the following extract from the Harrogate Third Shepherd 's Pay in the Hull Cycle ( ‘ as it hath been divers time acted by the Guild of Chandlers and Gardners upon the Feast of Corpus Christie , ) : |
| 20 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 21 | The impact upon the personality expectations and the way of life of a mature scholar by the University experience is not appreciated by many of the police … |
| 22 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
| 23 | Never train with heavily padded mitts or you will come to rely upon the extra cushioning effect which is not there with the competition version . |
| 24 | Less well run events rely upon the memories of the refereeing panel to screen out those who have won by two disqualifications . |
| 25 | This depends very much upon the individual , but peer-group support is often invaluable . |
| 26 | The rules of competition do not allow direct attacks upon the limbs , so use foot sweeps with care . |
| 27 | By reasoned arguments concerning the hardship it would bring upon the district if some hundreds of the most able-bodied young men had to go . |
| 28 | And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house , and upon thy gates … ’ |
| 29 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 30 | ( Even the radical nativist has to admit that information has to impinge upon the organism . ) |