The phrase "shone upon" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means for light to fall onto something or for something to be blessed, favored, or endowed with a virtue. For example, you could say, "A ray of sunshine shone upon the meadow, lighting up the tranquil landscape."
And the sun ascended into the firmament, above towering clouds stacked upon clouds, and shafts of brilliant sunlight shone upon the promised city.
Unable to stand up, he turned his shoulders stiffly in my direction when we were introduced and shone upon me a shadow of the thousand-volt smile that all of us who had known him remembered so well.
Rights activists say that while the brutal methods of Uzbekistan's police and special services need light shone upon them, it is strange that Karimova is the one wielding the torch.
The rainbow, at least, was free and democratic, and shone upon the gay, the unemployed and those who can afford to buy exquisite jewelry by Solange Azagury-Partridge alike.
Increasingly loud rumours that the royal wedding dress could be the work of lesser-known designer Sophie Cranston – founder of the label Libelula – forced the company to issue a denial last week, at which point the speculative spotlight shone upon Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen, Bruce Oldfield, Phillipa Lepley and Alice Temperley.
Professor Richard Lindzen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the few remaining serious scientists who doubt that climate change is a problem, believes in what he calls the "iris effect": that, just as the eye's iris closes up when a bright light is shone upon it, so a warmer world will produce more water vapour which will form clouds and block out sunlight.
After I buried its remains in the forest, a blue moon shone down upon us.
An ultraviolet light source (EFOS Ultracure 100SS Plus) at a wavelength of 365 nm was shone incident upon the beaker from a probe at 20 W/cm2 for 2.5 seconds to sufficiently cause the cross-linking via free-radical photo-initiation.
And the legend has grown and shone and blazed, of one coloured woman who took it upon herself on a whim to stand out at last against the separation of blacks and whites on a southern bus.
AS the dark and stormy night descended upon technology companies in the third quarter of 2000, the results of Gateway shone like a beacon.
One to watch: "Jordon Mutch shone in a struggling Cardiff side last season and may be relied upon for a lot of QPR's goals".
