Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that such liability is firmly established , the question becomes whether persons who give advice or perform services should be liable to all persons who may foreseeably rely upon their work being properly performed with all due care . |
| 2 | We may only speculate upon how these survival rates will change in future decades . |
| 3 | It does not exist where one of the parent companies may alone decide upon a joint venture company 's commercial activities . |
| 4 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 5 | ‘ They should also focus upon the achievement of clear environmental results and not on detailed , prescribed management practices . ’ |
| 6 | This attitude must change , for man 's progress through time must inevitably confer upon him the right to use his powers of reason and logical thinking to build for himself a satisfying religion based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 7 | If any proof were needed to insist that confessors and directors should avoid pressing their penitents into any clearly established scheme but instead should simply wait upon the Lord and watch and assist his working in the individual soul , this diversity among the great masters of the spiritual life should be sufficient . |
| 8 | If , therefore , we were to interfere , it would be for the purpose of controlling his judgment ; but any interference by us to control the judgment of the visitor would be attended with the most mischievous consequences , since we must then decide upon the statutes of the college , of which we are ignorant , and the construction of which has been confided to another forum . ’ |
| 9 | All our interpretations about what happened in the past must ultimately rest upon this evidence surviving from the past . |
| 10 | It is a fairly modern idea , based on ancient morality that the groom should never look upon the bride in her glory before the ceremony . |
| 11 | These patients are unable to defecate voluntarily and must therefore rely upon stimulation of bowel reflexes with or without manual evacuation to complete defecation . |
| 12 | Managers should therefore concentrate upon the type and nature of information to be held , and how this information will be used in the process of managing the personnel function . |
| 13 | I mean it may just depend upon how secure the |
| 14 | I 'll now call upon David of Coopers and Lybrand to read the report of the auditors to the members . |
| 15 | All might now depend upon that interfering , extremely lucky , English clerk . |
| 16 | You might even stumble upon a theorem or two in your researches . |
| 17 | Personnel management could thus draw upon a wealth of experience , a skilled data processing staff and the fact that there already existed a library of programs although none of them were designed to access or process personnel records . |
| 18 | It is without doubt the most sincere , the most gracious and the most thoughtful living citation our English friends could possibly bestow upon us . |
| 19 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 20 | Though clearly , whatever the logic of the situation , Hitler could still rely upon substantial bonds of undying allegiance among his most loyal supporters , especially of course those who for years had been exposed to the full brunt of Party organization and indoctrination , there seems little doubt that the mass base of unquestioned trust in Hitler was already in 1942 beginning to give way . |
| 21 | The duties which fell to Worthington Evans at Westminster became Bill O'Farrell 's responsibility in Warwickshire , while at Brighton he could always rely upon Leroy Burns . |
| 22 | Frustrated national movements like those of the Irish , or south Slavs of the Dual Monarchy , of the Armenians in Turkey or the Poles in Russia , could usually rely upon a reflex of ready sympathy in at least some foreign countries . |
| 23 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 24 | One known and accepted fact provided the argumentative weight he had needed , and could now build upon . |
| 25 | Selection of a purchase could well depend upon the standard of manufacture . |
| 26 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |
| 27 | She could then descend upon the Grand Hotel to take tea . |
| 28 | The Pet Shop Boys could never rely upon sex appeal . |
| 29 | More significant was the greater scope for historical research offered by the latter ; clothes , Laura recognized , could never draw upon their historical antecedents to the same degree . |
| 30 | An arm along the back of the sofa that could lightly rest upon her shoulders , a casual pressure of his thigh against hers . |