Example sentences of "[art] [noun] upon a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determine the force upon a point charge placed inside a conducting sphere at a distance a from the centre of the sphere . |
| 2 | Where the principle object of a Bill was money , it was formerly the practice for it to be made the subject of a debate in the Commons upon a resolution before the Bill was read a first time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 5 | Although Wren 's celebrated dome was not , in fact molested , the high-rise guidelines focused solely upon picturesque views and not upon symbolism ; with the result that St Paul 's is no longer the crowning achievement of the city , but dwarfed to seeming like a pimple upon a buttock . |
| 6 | from a twig upon a tree within a wood . |
| 7 | The great neo-classicist , Sir John Soane , for example , vehemently opposed the use of a pediment upon a building which was of neither sacred nor great civic importance . |
| 8 | Rule 7.3(12) provides for the service of a copy of a notice upon a person who is referred to in the notice not being a member concerned . |
| 9 | Killer whales evidently evince feelings of considerable fear in these creatures for even the usually timid Grey seal has been known to jump right out of the sea , joining a man upon a rock , when Killer whales were about . |
| 10 | The need to start younger members of a family upon a career frequently brought a freeholder to seek the aid of a politician , and this was one of the major elements in interest building . |
| 11 | An attitude is a mental state of readiness , organised through experience , exerting an influence upon an individual 's response to an object and the situations with which it is related . |
| 12 | Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella upon an operating table . |
| 13 | These provisions gave rise to uncertainty largely because the courts showed a marked reluctance to interpret them according to the ordinary meaning of such words as ‘ void , and they also gave rise to injustice because under the Common Law an infant could still sue an adult upon a contract unenforceable against himself and incapable of ratification by him . |
| 14 | Parliament should give fresh thought to enacting a provision placing an obligation upon a council tenant to give notice to the council before being permitted to commence proceedings . |
| 15 | TWO Darlington men were yesterday cleared of an attack upon a business partner . |
| 16 | During conflict , baboons may seek assistance from others by soliciting their participation in an attack upon an opponent . |
| 17 | ‘ write an Encomium upon a Person I |