Example sentences of "upon an [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers .
2 Over such periods high growth rates , and rapid improvements in living standards , are dependent upon an increase in productive capacity rather than on temporary changes in the level of demand .
3 Then one day he chanced upon an ad in the Evening Standard inviting aspirant comics for a new venture above a Soho strip club called the Comedy Store .
4 Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top .
5 This factor therefore depends upon an imbalance in power which is based on an imbalance in knowledge .
6 BENEATH A PALE vault of sky , upon an island in the Atlantic Ocean , a man is running , and this run is a brief revelation of pure physical glory , part human , part animal , part transcendent of both .
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