Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French air force was used to bomb rebel-held areas of Damascus and Druze villages , a bombardment that fell indiscriminately upon the civilians of Syria and Lebanon . |
| 2 | As a result , he gave up any further pretense of restoring constitutional democracy and relied instead upon the enactment of a ‘ direct democracy ’ between himself and ’ the people ’ . |
| 3 | He fell back at once and lay quietly on the damp earth staring up at the now empty wall as his blood soaked into and congealed darkly upon the white of his shirt . |
| 4 | High upon Old Bedwetter and barbiturates , Sam Maggott lazed back in his office chair and smiled placidly upon the bleary-eyed officer now lounging in his doorway . |
| 5 | ‘ Like this , ’ Alexei said , and sketched rapidly upon the topmost sheet of a folder full of paper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What this mode of association requires for determining the jus of a law is not a set of abstract criteria but an appropriately argumentative form of discourse in which to deliberate the matter ; that is , a form of moral discourse , not concerned generally with right and wrong in conduct , but focused narrowly upon the kind of conditional obligations a law may impose , undistracted by prudential and consequential considerations , and insulated from the spurious claims of conscientious objectors , of minorities for exceptional treatment and , so far as may be , from current moral idiocies . |