Example sentences of "upon a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout July the talks became more acrimonious with the Democrats unable to agree upon a deficit reduction package amongst themselves , and the Republicans accusing them of negotiating in bad faith . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And if you are lucky enough to stumble upon a village show you will be warmly welcomed and given the best seats in the house — which might mean a patch of ground under the village banyan tree . |
| 4 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 5 | She locates the origin of psychology at the historical beginnings of the novel , and using the example of the French writer , Antoine de Sale , indicates that the enactment of betrayal and loss in the early novels depends upon a fantasy of completeness . |
| 6 | Here we would just like to mention briefly some of the studies that came out between 1980 and 1986 , which attempt to develop accounts that would be either specifically feminist or draw upon a women 's point of view . |
| 7 | The petitioner took the view that involuntary agency could not properly be distinguished either from notification au parquet , to which the authors of the Convention were clearly opposed , or from such devices as service upon a State official , typically the Secretary of State , permitted in various United States jurisdictions . |
| 8 | Under certain circumstances an oral commitment can be binding upon a State , but how would this affect the States parties to the treaty who are also parties to the Vienna Convention ? |
| 9 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |
| 10 | Municipal legal restrictions upon a State 's treaty-making powers can not support a claim of treaty invalidity unless the domestic restrictions are manifest and concern an internal law of fundamental importance . |
| 11 | According to these accounts , the structure of power in capitalism is based upon a state which acts as a mere instrument to serve the interests of those ( the ruling class ) who own the means of production . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 14 | Some of the early cases seem to turn upon a consideration of whether or not a payment which it is sought to recover was made voluntarily or not . |
| 15 | Many of the cases appear to turn upon a consideration of whether the payment was voluntary or involuntary . |
| 16 | The Dutch sellers now relied upon a clause ( clause 13 ) in their contract of sale with the buyers and claimed therefore to have proprietary rights entitling them to have priority over the buyers ' other creditors . |
| 17 | They had already decided upon a name . |
| 18 | Next came four schoolboys , one of them carrying an open copy of the Koran placed upon a kind of platform of palm-sticks and covered with an embroidered kerchief . |
| 19 | The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary . |
| 20 | In his essay in Salmagundi , Robert Scholes argues that conservatives desire a common curriculum — any common curriculum — because this would have a unifying effect upon a society that suffers from an excess of pluralism , and this unifying effect , an achieved cultural consensus , would in itself be a good thing for the country socially and politically . |
| 21 | Moore , who did not place much value upon a society as a whole , might not have agreed , but his general principles allow it as a possibility . |
| 22 | Good roads , canals and navigable rivers , by diminishing the expense of carriage , put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town . |
| 23 | They know that it is not as important as good health , a contented mind , or that gift that the poet Ruth Pitter said was the one she would choose , above all others , to bestow upon a child at birth — ‘ love in old age ’ . |
| 24 | When dealing with cases of sexual abuse perpetrated upon a child , one of the greatest problems is the guilt which that child always feels during and after the event . |
| 25 | The problems presented ranged from sexual problems within marriage to alcoholism , suicide , attempted suicide , indecent assault upon a child , physical violence between husband and wife , family breakdown , learning and behavioural problems of children ( eg sibling rivalry , stealing , incendiarism ) , terminal illness within the family and bereavement . |
| 26 | In one of the earlier cases B. ( B.R. ) v. B. ( J. ) [ 1968 ] P. 466 , in which the court authorised the performance of a blood test upon a child of four , Lord Denning M.R. said , at pp. 473–474 : |
| 27 | Category B , carrying a maximum penalty of 14 years ’ imprisonment , would cover sexual assaults involving penetration accompanied by the infliction of actual bodily harm on the complainant or a third party ; a threat to inflict such harm with a weapon upon the complainant or a third party ; a threat to inflict such harm upon a child ; and the participation of more than one defendant in the sexual assault . |
| 28 | For instance , childhood conduct disorder may often lead to anti-social behaviour in adulthood , but this may reflect either the continuity of the disorder or the different effects of the same social stress acting first upon a child and later upon an adult ( Graham , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | We sat on the hall floor , cross-legged , in our forms , with our form-mistress beside us , so as the Headmistress stood on the platform , she looked down upon a sea of faces , rows and rows of black-stockinged legs , and a long line of mistresses sitting on their chairs . |
| 30 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |