Example sentences of "mainly upon " in BNC.

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1 The validity of a patent still turns mainly upon the question whether it complies with this enactment .
2 All these reasons serve to explain why this study concentrates mainly upon the attitudes to death that prevailed in the middle-class , whose irresistible rise was so prominent a feature of the nineteenth century .
3 In this study of Charlemagne , the emphasis is mainly upon two major aspects of his life : his military campaigns and his development of a unified European culture .
4 Thus the sperm whale makes prodigious dives from the surface , where it breathes , to depths of three kilometres or more , where it feeds mainly upon bottom-living squid .
5 In contrast with the Council of Europe proposals , which seek to specify what learners are meant to achieve and so bear mainly upon questions relating to syllabus design , humanistic approaches are centrally concerned with the actual process of learning and therefore have a bearing primarily on methodology .
6 As a consequence , incidentally , the strength of a glued joint does not depend upon the area of the joint , but mainly upon its width .
7 Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs .
8 The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside .
9 Whilst these variations are important I shall focus this discussion mainly upon the more common examples , where support is being given by one person to another .
10 The book 's later chapters focus mainly upon aspects of media accountability .
11 The sequence of events depends mainly upon the original mass .
12 As a result , reliance has been placed mainly upon case law to map the contours of the current prohibition .
13 This chapter has so far focused mainly upon south Korea and on the American-Soviet deliberations upon producing a unified administration .
14 In the first part of her reign she relied mainly upon the Antwerp money-market , where her debts in 1560 exceeded £272,000 .
15 Just how good it is depends mainly upon how much care one takes over the cream sauce .
16 Sedimentation and filtration for the removal of solid matter from process water are essential for most textile uses , and the methods employed depend mainly upon the source of the water .
17 Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) .
18 The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived .
19 The reasonableness of such clauses depends mainly upon the questions raised by s 11(4) of the UCTA " is the amount a reasonable one having regard to the financial resources of the party seeking its protection , and the extent to which he could insure against the relevant liabilities ?
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