Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ‘ forget ’ pop is to renege fundamentally upon the ( over-determining ) intentions of punk . |
| 2 | It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects . |
| 3 | Even these can be criticized only upon the basis of other assumptions . |
| 4 | During most of the 1950s and 1960s UK governments as a whole concentrated predominantly upon the employment objective , with the balance of payments frequently exerting a cons-traint on the achievement of this goal . |
| 5 | Of the pelagic animals , some fish browse directly upon the plankton , as do the baleen whales , which concentrate upon the euphausiids and copepods . |
| 6 | This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people . |
| 7 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 8 | The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage . |
| 9 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 10 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 11 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 12 | It may be that several disciplines can be brought to bear fruitfully upon an area ( Europe ) , period ( Enlightenment ) , problem ( traffic congestion ) , or theme ( Pastoral ) while still maintaining their distinct identity ; in which case the term ‘ multidisciplinary ’ ( OECD 1972 ) becomes appropriate . |
| 13 | A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today . |
| 14 | Jung can appear to link quite well with sociology ; indeed , he drew indirectly upon the work of the Durkheim School in developing his understanding of collective symbols . |
| 15 | If an adviser proposes to comment adversely upon the work of an individual teacher at a meeting he should inform the teacher and give him an opportunity to reply . |
| 16 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 17 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Whilst it is true that parole was advocated in Crime — a challenge to us all , it is true also that in the consensual politics of the day party study groups drew freely upon the available sources of expertise and received wisdom : the penal services themselves , the legal and academic communities , penal reform and other related interest groups , and published material from official or academic sources . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |
| 21 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 22 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 23 | Marxist accounts of the growth of government do not concentrate specifically upon the issue of government growth , rather their discussions of increasing public spending are usually couched in terms of a more general explanation of the role of the state . |
| 24 | He turned , his eyes resting momentarily upon the dim , grey shape of the funerary couch . |
| 25 | Then we can show that the relationship between the quantity of base money in existence and the outstanding money supply depends numerically upon the magnitude of the ratios and . |
| 26 | When John Paston wanted a favour he thought that ‘ Sir George Brown , Sir James Ratcliff and others of my acquaintance which wait most upon the King and lie nightly in his chamber will put to their good wills ’ . |
| 27 | Which schools the police visit depends entirely upon the head teachers , and little work is done with grammar schools . |
| 28 | the implementation of strategies will in themselves depend greatly upon a series of further conditioning variables such as managerial organisation , patterns of authority within the management hierarchy and , above all , upon the power of oppositional groups ( especially trade unions ) . |
| 29 | The level of premium paid to insure against an event depends obviously upon the likelihood or risk of the event occurring at all and the level of compensation or benefit to be paid when it does . |
| 30 | As was discussed in Chapter 1 the notion of prevalence depends crucially upon the unambiguous classification of the study population into cases ( i.e. those with dementia ) and non-cases ( i.e. those without dementia ) . |