Example sentences of "upon a course " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 ’ ? ) |
| 2 | This is not simply an incautious and unconsidered statement by Mr Baldwin , a slip of the tongue : it is the settled and deliberate policy of the governing class , who have entered upon a course of action which has for its object the deliberate intensification of unemployment as a method of forcing down wages . |
| 3 | There he entered upon a course of wild living and then , in the providence of God , he was sent to Portadown . |
| 4 | Agitated by the fear that the rebellious Irish , with their own parliament , might have allowed Ireland to be used as a back door into Britain by the acquisitive Napoleon , the government in London embarked upon a course of pressure which culminated in the felo de se of Grattan 's Parliament in the union legislation of 1800 . |
| 5 | So much was Wordsworth concerned for the apparent breakdown of the family as a unit that he embarked upon a course of action which seems incredibly naive and yet illustrates his downright belief in the social value of poetry . |
| 6 | He made Joynson-Hicks ( good on penal reform but illiberal on all else ) Home Secretary , and thus firmly launched the Home Office , which had been different in the days of Harcourt , Asquith and Churchill , upon a course of dour obscurantism from which it took three or four decades to recover . |
| 7 | You will be required to embark upon a course of study , in order to obtain the qualification the Diploma in Trading Standards , within a maximum of 5 years , on the successful completion of which you are required to remain with the Lothian Regional Council for a period of not less than 2 years . |