Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1322 , however , because of his often fraught relations with the magnates , Edward relied heavily upon the church for essential funds . |
| 2 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time . |
| 4 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 5 | Tuppe sat gloomily upon the tall boy 's rucksack . |
| 6 | Similarly , Poulantzas in his criticism of Miliband insisted strongly upon the character of the state and social classes as ‘ objective structures ’ , conceived individuals only as the ‘ bearers ’ of ‘ objective instances ’ , and rejected those alternative conceptions which introduce the purposes of conscious social actors into the analysis . |
| 7 | Two centuries after the ‘ blowing ’ of the Denver sluice in 1713 , the whole security of the south level of the Fens depended solely upon the security of the restored sluice . |