Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] upon [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During most of the 1950s and 1960s UK governments as a whole concentrated predominantly upon the employment objective , with the balance of payments frequently exerting a cons-traint on the achievement of this goal . |
| 2 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 3 | The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage . |
| 4 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 5 | Jung can appear to link quite well with sociology ; indeed , he drew indirectly upon the work of the Durkheim School in developing his understanding of collective symbols . |
| 6 | Thatcherism , like Reaganism , drew heavily upon the work of bright neo-conservatives outraged by the ‘ years of stagnation ’ in the prime ministerships of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan . |
| 7 | In a temple courtyard they came unexpectedly upon a troupe of imperial singers and dancers rehearsing a performance ; garbed in dazzling costumes of gold , red , green and turquoise , the expressionless boys and girls were indistinguishable from one another in their close-fitting bonnets as they performed the mannered steps of a delicate oriental dance to the plaintive . |
| 8 | ‘ If this matter rested solely upon the question of the best interests of the children I should have no doubt whatever that their welfare would be better served by their remaining in England in order that their future be determined by the High Court here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The various regional associations which were formed at various times in Eastern and Western Europe , in Africa , in the Middle East or in Latin America , rested either upon the predominance of one nation state over others in the region , or upon a limited agreement about a framework within which national economic interests could be more effectively pursued ; and they all showed themselves largely incapable of controlling the vigorous expression of such interests in periods of crisis . |
| 11 | The event was significant , for it followed hard upon the death in April of King John II in England , where he was still a prisoner . |
| 12 | Another sporting triumph followed hard upon the conquest of Everest and gave added reassurance to the nation , especially those steeped in the amateur spirit for whom the demolition of English professional football by Puskas and the Hungarians was not a matter for much regret . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 15 | Before 1322 , however , because of his often fraught relations with the magnates , Edward relied heavily upon the church for essential funds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It moved from being a component in the domestic strategy for the conquest of power to the key element in the overthrow of world capitalism , founded now upon an alliance of European workers and the nationalist movements of Asia . |
| 18 | God , enthroned invisibly upon the ark , is in the midst of it all , and the walls ' collapse , engineered so that the Israelites can enter the city from every side at once , is his doing . |
| 19 | The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Indignation is anger targeted precisely upon an action which deserves it and upon whoever has performed it . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At last , however , the door fell inwards upon the carpet . |
| 25 | His eye lit again upon the dinosaur . |
| 26 | The priest was dying with a last Gloria on his lips , and Harry , carried away upon a tide of hatred for all things Spanish and all things Catholic , had already sunk the blade into the back of the young hidalgo . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time . |
| 28 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |
| 29 | He rounded angrily upon the clerk . |
| 30 | The political and moral education of the boy and apprentice knight depended less upon the teaching of the church than upon the chansons de geste sung by minstrels . |