Example sentences of "[verb] directly upon the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the pelagic animals , some fish browse directly upon the plankton , as do the baleen whales , which concentrate upon the euphausiids and copepods . |
| 2 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 3 | Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub . |
| 4 | It is a principle of limited government based on the ideas that what was required was ‘ a properly equilibrated political system in which power was checked by power in such a way that neither the violent urges of kings , nor the arbitrariness of legislatures could impinge directly upon the individual ’ . |
| 5 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 6 | If you know that there is no case bearing directly upon the problem , say so . |
| 7 | According to Planck 's equation [ 1 ] the quantity of energy depended directly upon the frequency . |