Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb -s] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality — or modality — of the experience depends less upon the quality of energy reaching the nervous system than upon which parts of the sensory system are activated : stimulation of the retinal receptors causes an experience of light ; stimulation of the receptors in the inner ear gives rise to the experience of sound ; and so on . |
| 2 | The result depends critically upon the caveat that " other things are equal " . |
| 3 | The partnership depends heavily upon the generosity of the charity , but it 's seen as the way forward in care for the elderly . |
| 4 | The engine backs down upon a few trucks , perhaps a single one ; there is a quick manipulation of a coupling stick , and the engine draws off with its insignificant load . |
| 5 | The response to a ‘ foreign ’ device in the body depends largely upon its composition , which determines the performance in the biological matrix . |
| 6 | The emphasis falls instead upon the resurrection . |
| 7 | The choice relies heavily upon administratively established convention — ‘ normal ways ’ — as a device for help in determining any case at hand . |
| 8 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 9 | The choice of members of the government rests significantly upon the preferences of the prime minister . |
| 10 | The achievement of multiple economic objectives is especially difficult if the government relies exclusively upon one type of policy which operates essentially through the channel of aggregate demand . |
| 11 | It is obviously very prone to bias and reactivity effects ; it can easily be subverted by stacking samples ; and the credibility of the report depends completely upon the creditability of the practitioner . |
| 12 | It is no longer a one-to-one relationship in which the counsellor concentrates exclusively upon the feelings and needs of a single person , for other people must now be considered . |
| 13 | In that case the property passes not upon appropriation but when the other party 's assent is subsequently given . |
| 14 | The eventual success of the venture depends not upon ministers but upon the managers and the workforce in the companies themselves . |
| 15 | The success of monetary union in promoting a more balanced development within the EC rests ultimately upon factors such as the degree of wage flexibility , the mobility of capital in response to differential labour costs , versus the advantages of centralisation and agglom- eration . |
| 16 | In this , all assumptions about external reality are suspended ( ‘ bracketed ’ ) and the theorist focuses entirely upon his field of immediate experience . |
| 17 | The effective implementation of such a policy depends particularly upon effective management of the interface between institutional and homebased care , through screening and provision of intensive home care , where both assessment and case management are critical . |
| 18 | In developing countries today , in spite of the relevant laws , the age at which girls first marry or enter a union depends largely upon cultural standards and the tolerance for deviation . |
| 19 | When the weather has entered a relatively rain free period , but when cloud cover is moderately dense and uniform , but not too low — when the prevailing light is evenly spread over the landscape , with no parts over bright or too deep in shadow — when the wind is still or gently fitful , a magic prevails everywhere upon the Wolds , and it comes from within the chalk . |
| 20 | The level of premium paid to insure against an event depends obviously upon the likelihood or risk of the event occurring at all and the level of compensation or benefit to be paid when it does . |