Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools are often obliged , therefore , to amalgamate two or more classes for massed singing , or to rely heavily upon BBC Schools ' broadcasts . |
| 2 | A further characteristic of earlier physical geography had been the tendency to ignore the Holocene and to concentrate instead upon earlier phases of landscape development . |
| 3 | There are two contradictory images ; an idealised one is of a benign , wise , peaceful old person , available to listen and perhaps to advise and to draw valuably upon life experience . |
| 4 | Within the new universities one response to this perception of student " inadequacy " was to engage in a certain amount of disciplinary " cross-fertilization " ; and to depend more upon the " civilizing power " of a few " great books " considered to have some contemporary " relevance " than upon a " professional " approach to English studies . |
| 5 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 6 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |