Example sentences of "[adj] upon a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is itself dependent upon a number of rather more enduring features , perhaps the most important of which has been the continual growth in demand for overseas holidays despite the deep recession in the economy . |
| 2 | Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality . |
| 3 | These books , suitably adorned with glossy illustrations of exotic customs and part naked ladies , discourse at large upon a variety of supposedly universal characteristics of human culture which are then exemplified by thumbnail sketches of ethnographic miscellanea derived at third or fourth hand from a job lot of long ago anthropological monographs . |
| 4 | They were connected in their respective negations in their respective negations by the activities of the Situationist International , founded in 1957 upon a premise of refusal to enter the conventional cultural space and to combat the burgeoning ‘ society of the spectacle ’ with behaviour which had no place in the museum or the gallery — let alone the sale-room . |
| 5 | In business sales cases the assignment of the benefit of a restrictive covenant is usual upon a sale of goodwill and will be implied if not excluded : Townsend v Jarman [ 1900 ] 2 Ch 698 . |
| 6 | By 1013 , when his arrival in the Danelaw implies a change of tactic consequent upon a change of purpose , this had happened . |
| 7 | Though this point of view is not a new one , it took on increased importance in 1975 when the Labour government obtained a loan from the International Monetary Fund which was conditional upon a reduction of the level of public expenditure . |