Example sentences of "upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter studied astronomy at University College , London , and worked in accountancy for a short spell before deciding upon a career in nursing . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time . |
| 3 | It is thus both puzzling and worrying that so many brewers are still apparently obsessed with eradicating the uniqueness of the individual historic pub , effectively destroying what has been a familiar and secure social centre in their attempts to ‘ improve ’ upon a successful , time-honoured formula . |
| 4 | I would not advise any female competitor to rely upon a firm bra as a means of protection , because all that does is hold the breasts so that they ca n't move freely under impact . |
| 5 | She hit upon a pair of corduroy breeches which would fit snugly at the waist but balloon over the hips , with highly-polished brown leather boots for a touch of chic , a maroon Italian sweater , which at 15p at a jumble sale had been a real snip , and a jaunty maroon beret . |
| 6 | Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself . |
| 7 | I think that this kind of objection rests upon a false way of thinking about the information that the input system provides . |
| 8 | Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind . |
| 9 | First , it is parasitic , as all codes are , upon a primary , natural language . |
| 10 | Rather , he has a plan of a plan : the plan being to murder an old money-lender , while the plan of that plan is to embark here and now , out of doors , in the glare and summer stench of Petersburg , upon a rehearsal of the murder . |
| 11 | This boredom rotates upon a frivolous-menacing , frenetic-slack , comic-terrible axis which is the book 's living principle . |
| 12 | She and the new governor 's wife , Mrs von Lemke , enter upon a tussle for local ascendancy through their rival charitable undertakings . |
| 13 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 14 | Such contextualizing tends to do away with the modernist and New Critical elevation of the Poem in Itself , the verbal icon , the well-wrought urn , the jar upon a hill in Tennessee . |
| 15 | Compleynt , compleynt I hearde upon a day , |
| 16 | Once upon a time another German government let Lenin cross another Germany in a sealed train on his way to Russia . |
| 17 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 18 | With Geoffrey Parsons ( piano ) 8pm Royal Opera House , Covent Garden ( 240 1066 ) £1.50-£15 ADDRESSES AND BOOKING Barbican Centre , Silk Street EC2 ( 638 8891 ) South Bank Centre ( Royal Festival Hall , Queen Elizabeth Hall , Purcell Room ) , South Bank SE1 ( 928 8800 ) St John 's , Smith Square SW1 ( 222 1061 ) Wigmore Hall , Wigmore Street W1 ( 935 2141 ) OPERA CITY OF BIRMINGHAM TOURING OPERA ‘ Ghanashyam — A Broken Branch ’ CBTO 's most adventurous project so far unites 16 of India 's leading classical performers with nine British-based Asian artists in the premiere performances of Pandit Ravi Shankar 's new musical theatre piece , a spectacular marriage of Indian classical music , song and dance ( Kathak , Bharatanatyam and Kathakali ) set in an idyllic early 20th-century India and exploring the destructive effects of drink and drugs upon a village dancer , played by Kathak wizard Durga Lal . |
| 19 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 20 | Once upon a time , this might have been 95 per cent . |
| 21 | Unable to build upon a draw against England at Wembley and a victory over Poland at home , Wales , defeated 3-0 , were out of the World Cup . |
| 22 | MOSCOW — Once upon a time , in a previous journalistic incarnation , I worked at Westminster . |
| 23 | When committing himself enthusiastically to an undeniably outrageous tactic , this brave and noble warrior not only left his mark on the opposition but touched significantly upon a dilemma that threatens to develop into an insurmountable and perhaps crucifying problem for Bobby Robson , the temporarily reprieved England manager . |
| 24 | In addition , the ESRC has funded studies of liaison committees established upon a recommendation from the Scarman Report into the Brixton disturbances as forums for consultation between the police and representatives of the local community , and also funded Fielding 's study of community policing in South London . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 26 | Ramsey cried to the Church to be itself ; to know that its being rests upon a death and an empty tomb ; and to be itself whether modern Britain will listen or close its ears . |
| 27 | At the earliest moment , local authorities should be required to submit a building programme for five or ten years to come , based upon a systematic plan to deal with slums and with acute overcrowding . |
| 28 | ( It is a standard procedure of politicians , when embarking upon a course which lacks logical coherence , to disarm critics and criticism by describing what they do or commend as ‘ only a first step ’ ; for who can demand logic from ‘ a first step ’ ? ) |
| 29 | In fact , they exhibited all the satisfaction of someone who has hit upon a method for causing water to flow uphill . |
| 30 | Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality . |