Example sentences of "[noun sg] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Determine the force upon a point charge placed inside a conducting sphere at a distance a from the centre of the sphere . |
| 4 | Let us first work out the force upon a current element of length ds in the presence of a flux density B. According to eqn ( 3.7 ) the force on a point charge q is |
| 5 | Consequently , there is no net force upon a current loop in a homogeneous magnetic flux . |
| 6 | Next we shall work out the force upon a small current loop due to another current loop in the geometry of Fig. 3.17 . |
| 7 | In his essay in Salmagundi , Robert Scholes argues that conservatives desire a common curriculum — any common curriculum — because this would have a unifying effect upon a society that suffers from an excess of pluralism , and this unifying effect , an achieved cultural consensus , would in itself be a good thing for the country socially and politically . |
| 8 | However , it is not the description of disability that matters , but rather its effect upon a person 's major life activities . |
| 9 | It is rather a display of witty dexterity , depending for its effect upon a sharing of specialized learning between author/narrator and readers/listeners . |
| 10 | Although the war had had , in the words of Winston Churchill , ‘ a sobering and concentrating effect upon a hitherto careless mind ’ he was still rigidly refused direct access to his father . |
| 11 | Clearly , there will be a wide overlap between the role of the environment in contributing to this external cause of a rhythm , its effect upon an organism 's behaviour , and its ability to adjust the body clock . |
| 12 | It also covers a threat to inflict such harm upon a person with intent to have sexual intercourse with that person provided that the threat is made with an offensive weapon or instrument . |
| 13 | Category B , carrying a maximum penalty of 14 years ’ imprisonment , would cover sexual assaults involving penetration accompanied by the infliction of actual bodily harm on the complainant or a third party ; a threat to inflict such harm with a weapon upon the complainant or a third party ; a threat to inflict such harm upon a child ; and the participation of more than one defendant in the sexual assault . |
| 14 | ‘ In the present case the act or omission of the defendant occurred while he was driving a motor car upon a public highway , and it was , we think , then reasonably foreseeable that such act or omission might cause injury to a pregnant woman in the car with which his car collided and might cause the child she was carrying to be born in an injured condition . |
| 15 | It would be an interminable occupation were it not for the fact that what one learns about the landscape of one town often throws a flash of light upon a topographical puzzle in another . |
| 16 | This may occur in the same physical configuration as that of Fig. 3.16 ( p. 81 ) used for calculating the torque upon a single turn of current-carrying wire . |
| 17 | She spread mulberry jam in reckless bounty upon a slice of tea cake . |
| 18 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 19 | She had looked out of her bedroom window upon an unjust world , upon undeserved sadness , upon concatenation of ill-luck , upon the at least equal odds of sickness , spinsterhood and narrow horizons . |
| 20 | Despite these circumstances , the case strongly affirms that where the parties intend a treaty to confer a benefit upon a non-party it can be applied , regardless of third party consent . |
| 21 | A liberal interpretation to prevent the statute operating upon a casus male inclusus may sometimes be comparatively easy , as it was in Re Sigsworth . |
| 22 | The whole purpose of imposing a section 2 requirement upon a suspected or accused person must be to obtain from him information and evidence which in an appropriate case , and subject only to the subsection ( 8 ) restriction on the use of statements made by him , can be deployed against him . |
| 23 | Thus , the legislation was extended to prohibit a supplier from imposing any contractual requirement upon a reseller to maintain prices , or from refusing to supply resellers where the basis for such refusal is that the resellers have been cutting prices . |
| 24 | The fact that you never see a flat hedgehog upon a soft grassy field , bears this out and proves my point somewhat conclusively , I so believe . |
| 25 | A gene 's influence upon a nervous system , or , for that matter , upon the colour of an eye or the wrinkliness of a pea , is always indirect . |
| 26 | Philomene Magers continues to show artists who have exerted a strong theoretical influence upon a younger generation . |
| 27 | An attitude is a mental state of readiness , organised through experience , exerting an influence upon an individual 's response to an object and the situations with which it is related . |
| 28 | Unless specifically agreed by us in writing at the time you make your booking , we can not accept any booking which is made conditional upon a special request being satisfied . |
| 29 | Unless specifically agreed at the time of making your booking , we can not accept any reservation which is made conditional upon a Special Request being satisfied . |
| 30 | to agree the number of offers conditional upon A level performance that should be made to meet the admission targets for the fields and the Modular Course ; |