Example sentences of "[verb] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faraday showed to his satisfaction that the muscles of those pressing upon a table in a seance moved before the table did rather than in response to its motions ; he considered further investigation a waste of time . |
| 2 | Certainly not for a wasteful spendthrift , who preyed upon a gullible old woman ! |
| 3 | From this suggestion developed the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) which has to some extent moved discussion away from process to concentrate upon a measurable product . |
| 4 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 5 | It drew upon a general concern to reduce the working day ; then , with renewed confidence , attempts were made to extend the struggle by forcing a closed shop . |
| 6 | The heroism portrayed as necessary to triumph over the slave trade drew upon a sense of working in harmony with fellow reformers , fired in part by an ideologically convergent commitment and of acting upon that commitment in similar ways . |
| 7 | As we have noted , the Celtic Church drew upon a broad spectrum of texts beyond Rome 's sphere of influence — Nazarean texts , Nestorian texts , Priscillianist texts , Gnostic and Manichaean texts , books of both Judaic and ‘ Christian ’ apocrypha . |
| 8 | It drew upon a series of speeches he had made in the late autumn , particularly an address to an all-union student forum . |
| 9 | Matthew drew upon a long-standing belief that the flora and fauna of Eurasia were dominant over those of the rest of the world and combined this with the paleontologist 's theory of the periodic explosion of new types at certain points in the fossil record . |
| 10 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 11 | The post-1979 managerial emphasis in central administration was not wholly new : indeed , it started from much the same principle as Fulton — that civil servants needed to adopt a more business-like approach and drew upon a number of Fulton 's ideas about departmental organization ( see Chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 12 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 13 | The relation of this authority to the other officials of the state , indeed to the sultan himself , must , however , wait upon a discussion of the further historical development of the Muftilik , a subject to which it is now necessary to turn . |
| 14 | A year ago in Liverpool , a boy was caught upon a Sunday evening in the act of stealing a handkerchief out of somebody 's pocket and was arrested . |
| 15 | Two boys , perched upon a wall , surprise |
| 16 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 17 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 18 | A new means-tested superannuation scheme was announced to replace the existing guaranteed retirement income — thereby reneging upon a National Party election promise — the age of entitlement lifted progressively from 60 to 65 years . |
| 19 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 20 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |
| 21 | Construct theory however presents a clear pattern of how unique , individual experience is brought to bear upon a situation , of how constructs are applied whether they are appropriate or not , and how the theoretical framework forming the basis of a personal construct system is constantly revised . |
| 22 | The compulsion to be exercised in the attempt to satisfy the claim of right is not purely or mainly internal to particular societies : it is compulsion to be exercised by some societies against other societies , coercion to be brought to bear upon an international scale . |
| 23 | Armed with such views , Mosley entered upon a turbulent political career which saw him move from being the Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918 to , after several political adjustments , becoming Labour MP for Smethwick in 1926 . |
| 24 | In May 1979 , partly out of desperation , we entered upon a great experiment . |
| 25 | There he entered upon a course of wild living and then , in the providence of God , he was sent to Portadown . |
| 26 | There is no trust deed , no trustee and the saver 's claim upon the assets of the trust is only the very general claim that any shareholder has upon a company . |
| 27 | It jerked and looped and lurched energetically , finally landing upon an oak leaf . |
| 28 | Unions may organise according to ‘ exclusive ’ principles , dependent upon their market capacities and resultant ability to erect boundaries , or they may recruit upon an ‘ inclusive ’ basis . |
| 29 | Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated . |
| 30 | Some local authorities have committees organised upon a , particular client group basis such as women , ethnic minorities , the disabled and so on . |