Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the death of my father impacted greatly upon my childhood years . |
| 2 | During most of the 1950s and 1960s UK governments as a whole concentrated predominantly upon the employment objective , with the balance of payments frequently exerting a cons-traint on the achievement of this goal . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the termination date occurred only upon expiry of the 12-week notice period . |
| 4 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 5 | The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage . |
| 6 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 7 | Whereas the SDPJ and the Japan Communist Party ( JCP ) attempted to turn the upper house election into a referendum , the LDP concentrated more upon economic issues . |
| 8 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 9 | These lovely girls with long fair hair were actually blood-sucking VAMPIRES who preyed exclusively upon young men as they lay sleeping . |
| 10 | The firebird dined exclusively upon golden apples and its powerful wings created strong winds when the bird took to the air ; as he flew , all the other birds would fall silent in awe at his grace . |
| 11 | Jung can appear to link quite well with sociology ; indeed , he drew indirectly upon the work of the Durkheim School in developing his understanding of collective symbols . |
| 12 | Thatcherism , like Reaganism , drew heavily upon the work of bright neo-conservatives outraged by the ‘ years of stagnation ’ in the prime ministerships of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan . |
| 13 | His first book , Syntactic Structures , published in 1957 , drew heavily upon his earlier unpublished work , The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory . |
| 14 | Whilst it is true that parole was advocated in Crime — a challenge to us all , it is true also that in the consensual politics of the day party study groups drew freely upon the available sources of expertise and received wisdom : the penal services themselves , the legal and academic communities , penal reform and other related interest groups , and published material from official or academic sources . |
| 15 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 16 | But their clerical vestments weighed lightly upon them : faced with conflicting claims on their time and loyalty from Church and Crown , they almost invariably obeyed the secular authority . |
| 17 | Behind her back , her hands intertwined and twisted feverishly upon each other . |
| 18 | They tensed somewhat upon sighting Petion , but Howard hastily interposed himself between them . |
| 19 | SIR — In view of the proven pain and loss conferred uniquely upon children by divorcing parents , ought not the Princess Royal to reconsider her position as President of the Save the Children Fund ? |
| 20 | The article now left the way open for the full expression of the teaching of Pius XI that , though the family had ‘ priority of nature and therefore of rights over civil society ’ , education belonged ‘ preeminently to the Church , by reason of a double title in the supernatural order , conferred exclusively upon her by God himself ; absolutely superior therefore to any other title in the natural order ’ ( 1929 : 5–6 ) . |
| 21 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 22 | In a temple courtyard they came unexpectedly upon a troupe of imperial singers and dancers rehearsing a performance ; garbed in dazzling costumes of gold , red , green and turquoise , the expressionless boys and girls were indistinguishable from one another in their close-fitting bonnets as they performed the mannered steps of a delicate oriental dance to the plaintive . |
| 23 | It was when ‘ the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him ’ that ‘ he tore a lion asunder as one tears a kid ’ ( Judg. 14:6 ) . |
| 24 | Although the prosecution claimed that she had stolen over $222,000,000 from the Filipino treasury , its case rested largely upon circumstantial evidence . |
| 25 | It is noteworthy that the teachers in the Art department acted promptly upon most of the recommendations addressed to them . |
| 26 | Openings were either spanned by a semi-circular arch which rested directly upon the capitals , without entablature , or by a lintel . |
| 27 | ‘ Who 's there ? ’ she murmured , and her head turned restlessly upon the pillows . |
| 28 | How far this development in Pissarro 's art depended upon the example of Monet is uncertain but it can be remembered that , after initial scepticism , he commented favourably upon the ‘ Haystacks ’ series and found himself in Rouen in the spring of 1896 , several months after Monet 's canvases of the Cathedral had been exhibited at Durand-Ruel 's gallery . |
| 29 | The orderly was a Yek , a member of Alexei 's guard , and the disappointment showed clearly upon his features . |
| 30 | Rose , in his book Do Parties Make a Difference ? , argues that " the 1974 Heath Government fulfilled at least 80% of its manifesto pledges … [ and ] the 1979 Labour Government … acted unambiguously upon 54% of its manifesto commitments and gave some evidence of action upon another 19% " . |