Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] upon a " in BNC.

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1 The Strategy Committee has therefore embarked upon a detailed review of the plan , looking at the effects on the profession , of the proposed changes in legal aid , the cost of default , and the importance to both the Society and practitioners of continuing to provide a quality service .
2 They had already decided upon a name .
3 The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals .
4 In late July the parallel committee of the House of Representatives had also agreed upon a much-reduced defence bill upon which the House was due to vote after the summer recess .
5 The Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite had also dwelt upon a thick cloud of unknowing that separates the ineffable God from mankind and this image dominated Greek theology .
6 The answer , as it seems to us , must be that the court regarded the enhanced right of silence which common law and statute have traditionally conferred upon a person once he has been charged as providing him , in the language of section 2(13) , with a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ for failing to comply with the requirement .
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