Example sentences of "[noun] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you all know , the American imperialists carried out the ruinous separate election and organised the so-called National Assembly with the support of the traitor minority and with savage oppression upon the majority of the South Korean people . |
| 2 | In December of the previous year the Leaders had paid an equally affectionate and touching tribute to a neighbour of Mr Ramsey 's , Mr James Lyske : ‘ This meeting desires to put on record their deep sense of a loss upon the death of Mr James Lyske , a Class Leader for many years , a life-long member of the Memorial Church and an official of the CE Society . |
| 3 | The letters of 12 June and 15 September 1986 did not say that Woolwich was offering the money to the revenue upon the condition that it would be repaid if ultimately found , in the pending litigation , not to be due . |
| 4 | Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Grove , almost at the end of Mrs. Macquaries Point . |
| 5 | Sunrise , which filters a wonderful golden hue upon the shell of the architecture , is perhaps best shot from the far side of the harbour , from Farm Cove , almost at the end of Mrs Macquaries Point . |
| 6 | There exists a particularly strong relationship with aircraft operations which frequently impacts upon the maintenance function . |
| 7 | If the criterion for the evaluation of gain or loss is not in terms of either the " maximisation of productive efficiency " or the " optimisation of consumption " , but rather in terms of the impact of membership of a regional trading bloc upon the balance of trade , then it is difficult to identify trade creation with a benefit arising from a switch between the domestic supplier and the union partner . |
| 8 | Moreover , his system has a reflex result upon the mind of the patient , and a general condition of buoyancy and freedom , and indeed of gaiety of spirit takes the place of the old jaded mental position . |
| 9 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 10 | These have been described as a fraud upon the public because , even if a data user has solemnly undertaken in his registration statement not to disclose the data to any third party , he will under the Act be deemed not to have contravened the terms of his registration if he access to requests from police or tax officers pleading prejudice to their enquiries . |
| 11 | If the judgments in that case are looked at , it will be found that Willes J. said , in explaining the grounds of his judgment that under circumstances like those of the present case , the debt is gone , because it would be a fraud upon the stranger who pays part of a debt in discharge of the whole , that an action should be brought for the debt . |
| 12 | This carter thakketh [ pats ] his horse upon the croupe [ rump ] |
| 13 | The low sun slanted through stained-glass windows to cast pools of blood upon the stone . |
| 14 | In the dim light from the street-lamp her face was very white — and the stain of blood upon the sheets looked almost black . |
| 15 | If the aesthetic is genuinely to have reciprocal leverage upon the political , certain problems have to be faced . |
| 16 | Local political elites , although originally intended to represent the interests of the central government within their area , appeared increasingly to resent their limited control over local appointment and investment decisions and were increasingly willing to employ ‘ nationalist ’ arguments as a means of increasing their leverage upon the central authorities in this connection . |
| 17 | I will never forget Kevin McMonagle ( Old Blue Eyes ) singing Tom Leonard 's brilliant version of ‘ My Way ’ ( ’ though some may mock/the macho talk/upon the Walk/of No Surrender/I 've drank the rent/I 've clocked the wife/I 've spewed my ring upon the fender ’ ) or John Cobb as Alasdair 's sad flowerseller , or Siobhan Redmond 's Bo'ness hippy . |
| 18 | The Tories ' overwhelming victory in 1987 appeared to set the seal upon the triumph of bourgeois capitalism . |
| 19 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer showed that the traditions of ‘ Brummagen ’ radical commercialism had not died with his father by being most worried about the effect of continued uncertainty upon the Christmas trade . |
| 20 | At one point in the trial he agreed that " other books may be considered , for two reasons , firstly , upon the question of the literary merit of a book which is the subject matter of the indictment … ( where ) it is necessary to compare that book with other books upon the question of literary merit . |
| 21 | Composers and publishers of songs were rewarded with royalties upon the sale of each record , but some companies hit upon the idea of renaming songs , and claiming that the record company ( or some associated concern ) had published them . |
| 22 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
| 23 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 24 | Mrs Stych fixed her button eyes upon the elegant figure of Mrs Frizzell and bowled purposefully across the lawn . |
| 25 | It might , if it is able , focus its eyes upon the speaker , having heard the voice , but it will certainly not understand . |
| 26 | The girl in the Chinese house-coat narrowed her eyes upon the central figure in the tableau before her , and the supple lines of her face sharpened into crystal , and lost their smiling gaiety . |
| 27 | ‘ Well … well , ’ he said , narrowing his far-sighted eyes upon the beloved map in his mind , ‘ they shall be somewhat too far north by then to find any trace of me . |
| 28 | The main emphasis of the Report ( its concentration upon a child-centred approach , and rather lightweight treatment of the teacher 's role ) provoked academic criticism . |
| 29 | And yet the best of such monographs , despite the concentration upon a tiny range of human activity , will tell us more about the ordinary social behaviour of mankind than a whole shelfful of general textbooks labelled Introduction to Cultural Anthropology . |
| 30 | The same thing happens when , later in the essay , Eliot defines the limitation of Pound 's kind of criticism ( for ‘ any kind of criticism has its limitations ’ ) : ‘ The limitation of Pound 's kind is in its concentration upon the craft of letters , and of poetry especially ’ . |