Example sentences of "[verb] heavily upon [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinical indices depend heavily upon subjective features such as abdominal pain and well being . |
| 2 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 3 | And when the London Film Company was formed in 1913 by Dr Ralph Tennyson Jupp , as an offshoot of his Provincial Cinematograph Theatres exhibition company , he relied heavily upon American producers and directors . |
| 4 | External debt continues to weigh heavily upon these countries . |
| 5 | Dr Spriegel : ‘ Much biological pest control is carried out in greenhouses ; open field growing still relies heavily upon chemical pesticides . |
| 6 | History relies heavily upon disciplined enquiry , systematic analysis and evaluation , argument , logical rigour and a search for the truth ; vii ) to introduce pupils to the distinctive methodology of historians . |
| 7 | If you have played through all the examples , you 'll have noticed how often 3rd and 6th intervals have come up ; this is because the intervallic structure of most chord types rely heavily upon these two intervals . |
| 8 | Some , light in colour , rely heavily upon anaerobic respiration . |
| 9 | Chittagong Railway Station and most tracks north of Bairab Bazar Junction rely heavily upon this renowned company for their structural steel , and there are 28 DWEC spans across rivers and streams in the Chittagong area . |
| 10 | The regulatory enforcement agent in routine cases adopts a compliance strategy which follows a serial pattern , a loosely structured but none the less organized process relying heavily upon negotiated conformity , with a gradual increase in pressure being applied to the unco-operative . |
| 11 | As the last title implies , anthropologists of this persuasion concentrate upon categories of thought and native philosophies or theories of knowledge ( which they often call ‘ conceptual systems ’ ) , drawing heavily upon linguistic theory and methods in an effort to achieve increasingly rigorous and exhaustive inventories of alien concepts and beliefs . |
| 12 | Silence is also part of the Japanese communication procedure and they tend to rely heavily upon non-verbal communication . |