Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] upon [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our research here concentrated upon holiday camps , where most sites are open from May to September , providing a season lasting at least five months . |
| 2 | In the pre-war world which informed Beveridge 's design for the Social Insurance system ( Beveridge , 1942 ) , a woman 's labour force career usually ended upon marriage and work outside the home was normally treated as incompatible with domestic duty . |
| 3 | Industrial development and economic progress increasingly depend upon computing and applied mathematical skills and expertise , and on today 's information technology . |
| 4 | Despite Philip 's passionate interest in natural history , his father insisted that he should have a recognized profession , and the choice eventually fell upon medicine . |
| 5 | Three years ago the Church also called upon adult education lecturer Dr Norman Todd to run a series of induction courses for bishops . |
| 6 | The report also draws upon research presented to it by Professor Cyril Greenland ( reported in full in Greenland , 1987 ) and comments as follows : Thus not only are we not given a definition but we are not given any clue as to which of all the cases that come to social worker 's notice are not high risk . |
| 7 | The titles of some of the books which were published in the golden age of deism well illustrate the terms of the debate : Locke 's The Reasonableness of Christianity ( 1695 ) ; Toland 's Christianity not Mysterious ( 1696 ) ; Collins ' The Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion ( 1724 ) ; and , on the other side , Butler 's The Analogy of Religion , Natural and Revealed ( 1736 ) and Dodwell 's Christianity not Founded upon Argument ( 1742 ) . |