Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If you know that there is no case bearing directly upon the problem , say so . |
| 33 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 34 | The force of this moral authority becomes clearer when discussions within the Association touching specifically upon the pedagogic uses of literature and indeed language are considered . |
| 35 | He could not help it , for an instant the restraint he was arduously imposing on himself slipped like a mask from his face , and the bitter blaze of his hatred flared from dilated eyes , burning ferociously upon Isambard 's calmly smiling countenance . |
| 36 | It was following immediately upon this that , on 10 September , Leslie wrote to me excitedly about a small enemy landing — a fact that was finally denied , and explained by Attlee in Parliament only in 1946 . |
| 37 | Thunder and lightning cracked and roared outside like some electric avalanche — and following immediately upon it came the enraged roaring of Something from Hell . |
| 38 | Following hard upon this came the issue of a set of stamps to commemorate the anniversary of Poland 's rebirth in November 1918 . |
| 39 | Apart from a few lone voices ( see , for example , R. F. Kahn 's evidence to the Radcliffe Committee in 1958 ) , most economists tended to shunt the problem of inflation to the nether recesses of their minds , concentrating instead upon other , more pressing problems such as the difficulties of reconciling a high level of employment with balance of payments equilibrium . |
| 40 | The shame , the guilt , the remorse were weighing heavily upon the parents . |
| 41 | He had failed to win the emperor 's attention , and his chronic money problems were weighing heavily upon him . |
| 42 | Time was weighing heavily upon him . |