Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some would say that blame should begin , even end , with Rushdie himself : that this ‘ impertinent , whining guest , ’ as Lord Tebbit unforgivably called him , wrote a calculatedly provocative book , brought the predictable wrath of Islam down upon himself and has since presented the taxpayer with a multi-million pound bill for keeping due retribution at bay . |
| 2 | The contributors regularly asserted that a university was not a democracy , and that academic study should be reserved for an elite by concentrating attention and opportunity only upon students endowed with " unusual gifts " . |
| 3 | Irina 's intense slightly squinting gaze , the way her eyes seemed to splinter sometimes and crackle with light , her cat-like face , the dark down upon her upper lip , the way she wrung her hands , all blended now into a single presence . |
| 4 | This sprang to mind yesterday upon hearing of Vermont Harmony . |
| 5 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 6 | Building a stock exclusively upon the results of this kind of study is bound to lead eventually to some distortion between requirements and provision . |
| 7 | You can sometimes discern quality in an instrument immediately upon picking it up and that 's certainly the case here . |
| 8 | Both maternal age and order of birth bear independently upon the probability of alate fetal death ( Table 15 ) . |
| 9 | 5.2.2 the Tenant 's Certificate has not been issued by the expiry of the period of immediately following the Possession Date then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately upon the expiry of the relevant period ( or upon the expiry of such extended period as the parties may within the relevant period agree in writing ) |
| 10 | 5.3 If at any time there has been any [ material ] noncompliance by the Landlord with any of [ its ] obligations under clause 2 or by the Tenant with any of [ its ] obligations under clause 3 and such default shall continue for or shall not be remedied to the [ reasonable ] satisfaction of the party not in default within [ 15 ] working days ( time being of the essence ) after service on the party in default by the other part of a notice specifying the default and invoking the provisions of this clause then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately upon the expiry of the relevant period |
| 11 | Many members of the immigrant population in Britain do not subscribe to it , while current murmurs of homosexual " marriage " cast a new light even upon the heterosexual implications of this definition . |
| 12 | Penman said , ‘ Langley Dene ’ , to Murphy who indicated with a faint grimace that he knew his destination perfectly well already , and closed the door of the carriage firmly upon Alexandra . |
| 13 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 14 | For copying to be proved , the test is as follows : a ) there must be a sufficient objective similarity between the two works ( an objective issue — that is , would the " reasonable man " consider the two works sufficiently similar ) , and b ) there must also be some causal connection between the two works ( a subjective question but not to be presumed as a matter of law merely upon proof of access ) . |
| 15 | But she was not a business executive for nothing , and , since it went without saying that the time he could spare her from his day was limited , she placed the buff folder down upon the desk and without more ado began , ‘ The Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 16 | Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again . |
| 17 | If he had been there , he would have come out of it with his lustre still upon him , and his crest as high as ever . |
| 18 | As we have seen , wood depends for its defences against crack propagation partly upon Jeronimidis ' work of fracture contrivance — which ensures that the critical Griffith crack length is a long one — and also , by way of a further safety device , upon the Cook-Gordon mechanism for stopping any crack which gets past George . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries . |
| 20 | Transgressive reinscription : a turning back upon something and a perverting of it typically it not exclusively through inversion and displacement . |
| 21 | We will , of course , move as quickly as possible , but it is most unlikely that my right hon. and learned Friend will be in a position to make the first pay and conditions order under the new Act immediately upon the expiry of the 1987 Act on 31 March 1992 . |
| 22 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , during the recent debate on the Asylum Bill , our right hon. Friend the Home Secretary pointed out that about 30,000 people are registered as asylum seekers , without their families , and that they are allowed six months ' benefit immediately upon registering as asylum seekers ? |
| 23 | Householders are thus tempted to purchase this less well-known brand more upon the basis of price than comparative performance . |
| 24 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 25 | The Gater Committee on Film Production Costs , which reported in October 1949 , was in no doubt that the film industry had brought its latest crisis down upon its own head , through creating ‘ a general atmosphere of extravagance and unreality , leading to a disregard of expense which would not be tolerated in other forms of business . ’ |
| 26 | Furthermore , they have concentrated their attention largely upon economic growth while neglecting other aspects of development . |
| 27 | Knowledge of these findings made a similar study , but with a focus solely upon mentally frail elderly people , an interesting proposition . |
| 28 | To avoid such problems , where a consent is needed , the normal practice is for the sale agreement to provide that the vendor will hold the benefit of such contract on trust for the purchaser and pay any sums which the vendor receives after completion to the purchaser immediately upon receipt ( see clause 8.2(a) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 29 | In this respect , indeed , there is no difference at all between old and new nations , and it would be quite misleading to concentrate attention exclusively upon the nationalism of the newly independent countries . |
| 30 | But the difference needs to be grasped before I can venture an opinion usefully upon that . |