Example sentences of "[adv] upon [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men like Hickes and Wriothesley , confidential men of business for the great , relied almost entirely upon such douceurs . |
| 2 | It is important to realise that the allege irreducibility of " greater than " and other similar relations to qualitative " properties turns entirely upon this assumption . |
| 3 | Interest is paid annually upon each anniversary of the first deposit to your TESSA and calculated on a daily basis on cleared balances ( including any interest credited but not withdrawn ) . |
| 4 | Despite the constant , untiring efforts of the devoted few , by the late twentieth century it has become increasingly clear that , in all probability , neither the Protestant nor Catholic Churches would have continued to exist if existence depended only upon such efforts . |
| 5 | It was the sort of kiss you saw portrayed on the cinema screen , between two madly attracted people in mortal danger who fell dementedly upon each other as if there was no tomorrow … |
| 6 | Behind her back , her hands intertwined and twisted feverishly upon each other . |
| 7 | Consequentially upon that contention , the appellant raised two further matters of complaint . |
| 8 | Furthermore , these kinds of effective ties are maintained not only among traditional working-class or immigrant communities , where factors such as economic need and outside hostility may cause them to depend more upon each other , but also among the more mobile members of the middle class . |
| 9 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 10 | It will become a criminal offence not to comply fully with any investigations , and it will be possible to impose substantial financial penalties , not only upon the companies operating a prohibited agreement , but also upon those directors found responsible for negotiating or operating such an agreement . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing in these Rules contained shall be deemed to interfere with the right of His Majesty , upon the humble petition of any person aggrieved by any judgment of the court , to admit his appeal therefrom upon such conditions as His Majesty in Council shall think fit to impose . |
| 12 | Ludens had reflected uneasily upon this episode . |
| 13 | The collapse of the previous International was also attributed by Lenin to the deviant ideology of its leaders and the Comintern was consequently designed in see that orthodoxy was imposed centrally upon all sections . |
| 14 | Insofar as GPs were using section referrals as a method of social control , it was more frequently upon these women . |
| 15 | 3.4 Immediately upon such approval being obtained the Tenant shall at its own expense apply for and use all reasonable endeavours to obtain without delay all Tenant 's Approvals The question of timing again arises and the tenant may prefer this provision to be watered down slightly as follows : |
| 16 | 8.1 In the event that the Secretary of State shall reject the Proposal either generally or as respects the proposed funding or participation of any proposed Party in the Project or if the Grant Offer Letter shall not have been issued and accepted by the Parties within six months of the date of execution hereof , then upon such rejection or the expiration of such six month period the Project shall , unless otherwise agreed , be deemed abandoned , the Proposal shall be withdrawn and any rights hereunder shall be deemed to have been terminated and each Party shall be entitled to require each other Party forthwith to deliver up and return to it all Technical Information and all other information supplied by it in connection with the Proposal together with all copies thereof in any form in the possession of such other Parties or any of its Related companies . |
| 17 | The standard defence of the modernist novel is based precisely upon these qualities , on its formal complexity and difficulty : the ‘ revolution of the word ’ is seen as either essential to , or more important than , any political revolution . |
| 18 | To ensure the best and most appropriate access to that information , historians might be advised once again to pursue collaborative initiatives with scholars in other disciplines who will also rely as heavily upon such materials . |
| 19 | External debt continues to weigh heavily upon these countries . |
| 20 | The burden of this increasing sense of isolation has fallen particularly heavily upon those members of the rural population who lack the means of personal mobility to maintain a more dispersed network of social contacts . |
| 21 | From 1689 a new form of service was established for that day , thanking God for discovering " the snares of death that were laid for us " in 1605 , " and likewise upon this day " for bringing King William " safely into this Kingdom , to preserve us from the late attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our religion and laws " . |
| 22 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |