Example sentences of "[vb -s] upon it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that law has upon it a rich gloss of practice , realism , and political sophistication which , I suggest , would preclude a repeat of events such as those which occurred in 1963 . |
| 2 | Everyone who looks upon it sees a different weapon . |
| 3 | Recovery depends upon it . |
| 4 | In the natural course , a lot of the energy of the rose is directed into new growth — after all , the plant 's continued and future existence depends upon it — but not all . |
| 5 | Derrida contends that if madness is constituted as madness , as other , by reason , then this means that reason is itself defined through it and therefore already contains and depends upon it . |
| 6 | A point should be certified only where the outcome of the appeal depends upon it — the prosecution to appeal where a defendant would be acquitted on the certified point alone if the Court of Appeal 's judgment were to stand ; the defendant to appeal where a reversal by the House of Lords of the Court of Appeal 's decision on the certified point would be his only means of acquittal . |
| 7 | Now we can begin on the first phrase — the most important of the whole theme , for the success of everything else depends upon it . |
| 8 | ‘ When so much depends upon it , ’ she said , ‘ it seems wrong to be so certain . ’ |
| 9 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 10 | ‘ The grass withers , the flower fades when the ruach adonai blows upon it . |
| 11 | If his foundation is insecure , as the arguments of the Woods and others would suggest , then the structure he builds upon it must also be unsafe . |
| 12 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 13 | Chaucer 's self-image is that of a writer , and he reflects upon it by exploring extremes in literature . |
| 14 | However , as oceanic lithosphere ages , cools and thickens it becomes more dense than the asthenosphere and rests upon it in an unstable state . |
| 15 | Even if it were valid , I can see no reason for supposing that the argument relies upon it . |
| 16 | Resistance does not operate outside power , nor is it necessarily produced oppositionally : it is imbricated within it , the irregular term that consistently disturbs it , rebounds upon it , and which on occasions can be manipulated so as to rupture it altogether : |
| 17 | When scumbling on a canvas the surface is lightly agitated , so that the light which falls upon it is scattered . |
| 18 | Today , when entering the Royal Academy at Burlington House , Piccadilly , those who notice the Artists ' Rifles memorial with S.A.S. wreathes upon it , may wonder at the connection between ‘ Mars and Minerva ’ . |
| 19 | But , even given these conditions , and the firm creation and institutionalisation of science , the outer world constantly presses upon it . |