Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] upon [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course limits are self imposed , they depend very much upon political will as well as upon resources . |
| 2 | Parliament 's control over direct taxation thus increased in importance after 1558 as the Crown became more dependent upon that source of revenue . |
| 3 | Information has to be taken in to the brain — often through the eyes but this is only because humans rely so much upon this sense . |
| 4 | This dichotomy becomes further evident upon closer analysis of the components of language processing systems . |
| 5 | Salaquin Mandru was an exhausted-looking man of early middle age , who had the kind of craggy face that becomes more attractive upon closer acquaintance . |
| 6 | When we are considering the impact of urbanization , we focus upon the way in which changes in the family and economy are affected by physical distance and spatial separation , the increasing need to travel to work , and perhaps the substitution of primary social relationships in a relatively stable territorially-based community such as a village by more secondary , more impersonal and fluctuating social relationships — which may , under certain circumstances , cause the members of the nuclear family to become more dependent upon each other . |