Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can seem to offer a completely adequate explanation of religion which bypasses what religious believers have always insisted upon as the truth . |
| 2 | The contents of this chapter have scarcely touched upon such important environmental research as the World Ocean Climate Experiment or the World Climate Research Programme . |
| 3 | The answer , as it seems to us , must be that the court regarded the enhanced right of silence which common law and statute have traditionally conferred upon a person once he has been charged as providing him , in the language of section 2(13) , with a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ for failing to comply with the requirement . |
| 4 | " It is now stated that a vast importation of Irish Beggars have already arrived upon the Island , and that others are likely to follow from the misconduct of our own Boatmen — the Community at large are warned to beware of harbouring foreign beggars … " |
| 5 | Traditional approaches to the problem of defining God 's nature have often concentrated upon running through a list of divine attributes and classifying them in various forms . |
| 6 | However , the major problem , and you Ma'am have already touched upon this as well as the Chairman and I am sorry to be repetitive but we do serve all yachtsmen , two and a half to three million of them whilst being financially supported by only sixty five thousand of them . |
| 7 | It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services . |
| 8 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 9 | The first six chapters of this book have all focused upon the financial and economic analysis underlying major investment decisions . |
| 10 | Recent British studies of dementia prevalence have largely relied upon the twelve-item information/orientation scale from the Clifton Assessment procedures for the Elderly ( CAPE ) ( Pattie and Gilleard 1979 ) . |
| 11 | What matters for our p rposes here is that there must be something special about those numbers , because three different species of cicada have independently converged upon them . |
| 12 | However natural it is , it still has the effect of making me cry when I catch sight of myself and nurses have visibly cringed upon seeing them . |
| 13 | Local authorities have always relied upon outside sources for many of the goods and services they require . |
| 14 | However the United Kingdom courts have recently insisted upon more evidentiary support for discretionary decisions , and exhibited a greater willingness to assess the cogency of the reasoning therein . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the explanation might lie in the study by Wagner ( 1984 ) , who stresses that researchers have usually focused upon PIMS data for an average four-year period . |