Sentence examples for be thrown upon a from inspiring English sources
I recommend a cracking book I received at Christmas on this art, Hand shadows to be thrown upon a wall, a Ronseal slither of a title written by a chap called Henry Bursill in 1860 to entertain his kids.
With the exception of the 1891 discovery in Java, all human fossil fragments have been discovered in continental Europe and England, "Nevertheless, leading scientists believe Asia was the early home of the human race and that whatever light may be thrown upon the origin of man will come from the great Central Asian plateau".
At the lonely rectory in Somersby the children were thrown upon their own resources.
Their built-in glow is so intense that it can match whatever electric wattage is thrown upon them.
Much of the financial burden of providing for the starving Irish peasantry was thrown upon the Irish landowners themselves (through local poor relief) and British absentee landowners.
The land has given employment to no portion of the increase of the population: the whole additional six millions of our people, since 1821, have been thrown upon other employments.
Much light has been thrown upon the relation to other primates and upon the nature of the transformation to human anatomy and behaviour in the course of evolution from early hominins to modern people a span of at least four million years.
The things spoken and done in this great event have remained undisclosed, though some light has been thrown upon them by the contents of the museum at Eleusis, such as the vase paintings, and by later untrustworthy references in the writings of the early Church Fathers (e.g., Clement of Alexandria) and some Gnostics (early Christian heretics who held that matter was evil and the spirit good).
Algiers, hooks were embedded in the city walls, and on occasion, people were thrown upon them from the battlements.
