Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of excuses in crime and of equity in contract is , however , so particularistic and so dependent upon the facts of the case that it strains credulity to imagine someone seeking in advance to bring his case under such categories . |
| 2 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 3 | According to the kind of constructivism that I am espousing , the holism of the mental is logically and developmentally dependent upon the holism of directed action . |
| 4 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |
| 5 | Heavy industry was largely concentrated in a handful of favoured regions , dominated by a small number of major and in part foreign-owned firms , and closely dependent upon the government for subsidies and contracts . |