Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | In rural communities , pressures to conform to a fixed structure of normative obligations were strong , since most people 's livelihood depended upon remaining within the family unit . |
| 2 | Should the goods prove unfit for their purpose , the buyer will have a claim only if their unfitness relates to the sphere of reliance placed upon the seller . |
| 3 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 4 | The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy , which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects . |
| 5 | Political leadership of the cause remained , into the 1830s , in the hands primarily of the upper echelons of the Anglican middle class but mass support depended upon the activism of evangelical dissent down to and including the artisan class . |
| 6 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |
| 7 | Jack 's only complaint was that the pittance he was paid hardly reflected the responsibility placed upon him . |
| 8 | And he told of his pledge to fight the growing crime rate in Darlington by calling for stiffer sentences and more responsibility placed upon parents for offenders under 17. — Labour candidate Alan Milburn , speaking at his adoption meeting , said the Conservatives had failed Darlington . |
| 9 | When they go to a match they are as a matter of course spat upon and jostled , threatened and assaulted ’ — The Times . |
| 10 | Distinctions between errors within and errors going to jurisdiction should be discarded ; any error of law should be held to be jurisdictional if the case depended upon it . |
| 11 | The values placed upon formal education are transmitted to the second generation Asians and consequently many achieve educational success . |
| 12 | From their earliest days the local groups relied upon the cooperation of schools and education authorities , and to a lesser extent club workers , to supply them with the necessary information concerning pupils who were about to leave school . |
| 13 | Progress depended upon an ascetic , unflinching commitment to ‘ realism ’ . |
| 14 | The cases relied upon were fairly eccentric , one a hitherto uncited judgment dating from 1855 and the other an obscure decision about the taxation of police stations in 1883 . |
| 15 | As we have seen , the degree to which this entailed the active participation of staff across the curriculum depended upon the quality of liaison and feedback to the committee itself . |
| 16 | The authorities relied upon in these appeals were as follows . |
| 17 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 18 | The market can be divided ( or " segmented " ) on the basis of these " typical " personalities or stereotypes , and products and promotional activities targeted upon them . |
| 19 | No scene , perhaps , in The Lord of the Rings is more moving or more suggestive than the one in which Sam and Frodo , in Mordor , see the wind changing and the darkness driven back , and then as if in answer to prayer come upon a trickle of water : ‘ ill-fated ’ and ‘ fruitless ’ in appearance , but at that moment seemingly a message from the world outside , beyond the Shadow . |
| 20 | Main aviation interest centres , of course , around a pristine-looking CF–DRD perched upon her wishbone pedestal , and at 4pm on Saturday July 25 , Norseman Park was officially opened and dedicated by Bob Noorduyn , son of the designer of the Norseman . |
| 21 | The prosecution must establish that all the elements of the crime relied upon as the unlawful act were present , and this includes the mental elements of intent or recklessness in assault or battery . |
| 22 | France persisted in operating a policy of cross-subsidisation where profitable coal mines subsidised those making losses , and where in any case the profitability of the whole industry depended upon generous governmental support — both policies which directly infringed the conditions of the ECSC treaty . |
| 23 | Here is one obvious link between borrowing and taxation : each new issue of funded stock depended upon either the introduction of a tax or the rescheduling of an existing one . |
| 24 | The Parkside study relied upon readmissions which occurred within the three hospitals within the DHA and underestimates readmission rates as it excludes readmissions which happened outside the study area . |
| 25 | The inclusion of the charterer 's duties in the text of the charter party made this contract conditional in the sense that its enforcement by the charterer depended upon fulfillment of the specified conditions . |
| 26 | Ingrid watched in amazement as the eggs disappeared as if they were being sucked into quicksand , and looked up to see every man 's eyes riveted upon Ilse 's gaping crack . |
| 27 | A marriage guidance tutor also explains Elizabeth and Harry 's situation as being a direct result of the demands placed upon middle and senior management in today 's society where men are expected to give their ‘ all ’ to their jobs and ‘ breathe the company ’ . |
| 28 | One could question whether in the year which is allowed to them , tutors responsible for PGCE students can hope to fulfil the demands placed upon them . |
| 29 | The demands placed upon them by academic subjects could be put on one side , they could devote their minds with urgency to the mastery of new skills and knowledge . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the system has been strongly conditioned by pressures and demands placed upon it . |