Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , why have teachers and students of language concentrated so exclusively upon the production of correct sentences if that is not enough to communicate ? |
| 2 | But the early metal bands drew very heavily upon the blues influence … |
| 3 | But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home . |
| 4 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 5 | The first of these , an HMI Report on local history classes throughout the Cambridge Extra-Mural Board 's area in 1954 , commented very favourably upon the general standard of teaching in both university and WEA courses and was also complimentary about the quality of students ' work . |
| 6 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 7 | She had sensed from the beginning that his compliments to her were of a different kind from those he bestowed so liberally upon every female in sight , but she could n't tell him that , while in her heart she liked them , she might be annoyed by his assumption that they were always acceptable . |
| 8 | Within seven years all his sons were dead too , and the West Saxon dynasty , in the person of Edward the Confessor , sat once more upon the throne of England . |