Example sentences of "[vb -s] upon [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are renegades from the Dwarf Engineers Guild which frowns upon innovation and regards much of the Empire 's new technology as a heinous break with ancient tradition . |
| 2 | Alice Walker focusses upon incest and child abuse in a black family , and portrays a black lesbian relationship as tender and liberating . |
| 3 | For life lives upon life : what is life to one is dinner to another ! |
| 4 | The ethogenic approach looks upon football hooliganism as a ritualised expression of aggression , resulting from a need to demonstrate dominance and masculinity ( Marsh et al. , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | Austicks in Leeds with its mix of academic and general bookselling , ‘ looks upon Christmas trade as the icing on the cake . |
| 6 | In one pathway , receptors are coupled through G proteins to stimulate PLC- β , whereas the other pathway depends upon tyrosine kinase-linked receptors which are specifically coupled to PLC- γ . |
| 7 | FUTURE OF 88OPEN IN ANY FORM DEPENDS UPON LEVEL OF INTEREST |
| 8 | It depends upon mobility ; molecules moving from one part of the structure to another . |
| 9 | The distinction he adduces as the crucial consequence of literacy depends upon interpretation of what is ‘ readjustment ’ as opposed to ‘ reinterpretation ’ and ‘ rejection ’ of ideas and beliefs . |
| 10 | The bequest must be adhered to , but adherence depends upon interpretation of the bequeather 's wishes . |
| 11 | IN BRITAIN THERE IS NOW A WIDESPREAD DESIRE TO COMPETE EFFECTIVELY BECAUSE , AS EVERYBODY KNOWS , OUR PROSPERITY DEPENDS UPON IT . |
| 12 | Colour depends upon surface temperature . |
| 13 | Whatever form it takes , however , such conspicuous consumption — ; and hence the allocation of status — depends upon income and farm workers , on low wages , simply can not compete in this league . |
| 14 | The size of the service sector is an impediment to economic growth because it depends upon inflation to a considerable extent . |
| 15 | Whether Meiko will ever employ the Cypress Semiconductor HyperSparc ‘ depends upon availability , ’ the firm says — even Viking ‘ is n't falling off trees . ’ |
| 16 | But even with formalities , the day to day working relationship between two people depends upon goodwill , sensitivity , tact , humility and a whole range of virtues on both sides . |
| 17 | proposed that channel opening depends upon InsP 3 binding sequentially to the four putative binding sites of the tetrameric receptor ( Fig. 2c ) . |
| 18 | The length of this splice and the size of the bolt for making the connection depends upon floor span , loading , spacing of joists and distance of the splice from the support , but for a 4m ( 13ft ) span in domestic-type work , with joists at 400mm ( 16in ) centres , the splice would be 610mm ( 24in ) long with two 12mm ( 1/2in ) diameter bolts installed 400mm ( 16in ) apart over 75mm ( 3in ) square toothed-plate connectors . |
| 19 | For he has realized something else , in the moment of inspiration between standing up and beginning to speak : that the aesthetic effect of honesty depends upon restraint in its application . |
| 20 | Drama provides a discipline for the development of co-ordination , concentration , commitment , organisation and decision-making that depends upon self and group awareness , observation , imagination and co-operation . |
| 21 | This , however , needs patient cooperation , depends upon bowel frequency and for optimum results requires granulocyte purification which is time consuming . |
| 22 | This connection is normally secured theoretically and depends upon well- established law-like relationships which are not only expressed mathematically but also indicate measurement units , as in the case of the thermometer . |
| 23 | Moral autonomy is concerned with individuals not with groups ; a conception of autonomy which depends upon group membership displays its own contradiction . |
| 24 | Successful treatment of the sick requires attention to their housing and income maintenance problems ; the care of the neglected child depends upon co-operation between health service workers , personal social services staff and schoolteachers ; the homeless often face income maintenance problems as well as housing problems ; and so on — the examples are legion . |
| 25 | The most complex occurs where policy implementation depends upon co-operation between separate autonomous organizations , and particularly where responsibility at the periphery is ( a ) delegated to several organizations with separate territories and ( b ) dependent upon co-ordinated action between two or more local organizations . |
| 26 | So the whole of the planet 's energy existence depends upon research chemistry . |
| 27 | But only the grant of the option depends upon consent . |
| 28 | A loan 's spread depends upon market conditions and the risk associated with a particular borrower . |
| 29 | Retention of the medication depends upon tear flow . |
| 30 | Influence depends upon respect . |