Example sentences of "[be] [adj] upon a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 2 | Whether that view should be sustained will however be dependent upon a value judgment as to whose opinion on the meaning of a term should be preferred . |
| 3 | On security issues Meckel maintained during a debate in the Volkskammer ( unicameral parliament ) on April 26 that membership of NATO was not the government 's aim , and would be conditional upon a change in the structures of the Western Alliance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nintendo Co has lost a bid to keep competitors from selling devices that modify its video games after the US Supreme Court refused to hear its arguments against an appeals court ruling in favour of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc , which offers Game Genie , which plugs into the Nintendo Entertainment System and cartridges , enabling players to use a simple code to change up to three elements of a game at a time ; the appeals court wrote that because Game Genie does n't cause any permanent change to the Nintendo cartridges — and is dependent upon a cartridge and the Nintendo system in order to operate — it does not usurp Nintendo 's copyright ; Nintendo said Game Genie violates a copyright owner 's exclusive right under the Copyright Act of 1976 to authorise or prepare derivative works . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The bridge across this river has collapsed , so the traveller is reliant upon a ferry , which can be time-consuming . |
| 8 | France created a powerful centralized bureaucracy to override local power and ensure a direct supply of resources to sustain the armies of the Crown ; England 's monarchy was dependent upon a gentry that supplied the armed forces , administered local justice , sat in Parliament and paid the taxes upon which the royal armies depended . |
| 9 | 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 . |