Example sentences of "draw heavily upon " in BNC.
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1 | Thatcherism , like Reaganism , drew heavily upon the work of bright neo-conservatives outraged by the ‘ years of stagnation ’ in the prime ministerships of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan . |
2 | His first book , Syntactic Structures , published in 1957 , drew heavily upon his earlier unpublished work , The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory . |
3 | It certainly draws heavily upon Thomas 's memories of people and incidents from his youth and early student days and many similarities exist between the bookish Mr Torrance and Mr Noble . |
4 | The present chapter , which draws heavily upon , and develops , arguments first presented in Griffiths and Johnston ( 1991 ) , illustrates these points , and advances the arguments presented throughout the book . |
5 | In Chapter 8 — on motivation — we shall examine research on the civil service which draws heavily upon the two-factor analysis developed by Herzberg . |
6 | 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 . |