Example sentences of "[adj] upon a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to the van of them , high upon a pure-bred white Arab stallion , the Wolf of Kabul . |
| 2 | To render the applicability of natural justice dependent upon a prior classification of the above type would have its utility in greater certainty and predictability : if a case fell within one category certain results would follow ; if it fell in a different category differing results would ensue . |
| 3 | The planning of each patient 's care is dependent upon a comprehensive and accurate assessment . |
| 4 | Government Departments can , however , under the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , be sued for the recovery of property , for breach of an ordinary commercial contract , but not for that of a contract of service , a contract dependent upon a future grant of money by parliament , nor , it seems , one in which the Crown purports to fetter its own future executive action , or for a tort . |
| 5 | So even in the situation in which apparently you 're quite heavily dependent upon a neighbouring state , there usually is some element of choice . |
| 6 | Independent research by economic consultants Pieda estimates that 71,000 jobs in the UK are currently dependent upon a viable Scotch Whisky Industry . |
| 7 | Guinness is dependent upon a healthy environment to provide the water , cereals and other natural ingredients essential to the production of the finest spirits and beers . |
| 8 | The Company is dependent upon a healthy environment to provide the natural ingredients vital to the production of the finest spirits and beers . |
| 9 | In his first independent act as king he established his authority on a sure foundation and revealed both a sound political judgement and a determination not to allow himself to be dependent upon a small group of powerful nobles . |
| 10 | Yet this radical autonomy of means and ends is itself dependent upon a circumscribed and self-confirming discourse of origins and destinies . |
| 11 | For even the most primitive practices are dependent upon a certain amount of theory , and even the most ‘ theoretical ’ activities can only take place within practices . |
| 12 | To put that another way , there are reasons for thinking that what an econometric model builder might believe is a good estimate of the constant structure of the economy is in fact no such thing , but rather an estimate of a relationship or group of relationships which are dependent upon a particular policy regime . |
| 13 | Some of the Midland villages with a large number of framework knitters had a more diverse occupational structure than the examples we have just discussed ; they were not as completely dependent upon a single trade . |
| 14 | Whereas word recognition is dependent upon a flexible use of a number of subskills , principally rapid visual processing and the selective use of phonological decoding as circumstances demand it , word production is more dependent upon the inflexible use of specific linguistic subskills . |
| 15 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 16 | The right to present was a doubtful political asset , for although it was a means of obliging some who might be useful upon a future occasion , many more might easily be alienated and mindful of the offence every Sunday . |
| 17 | In his study of The City of Worcester in the Sixteenth Century ( 1973 ) Dr Alan Dyer has shown that Worcester was far more reliant upon a single trade than most Elizabethan towns , certainly much more so than Leicester . |
| 18 | On the other hand British claims that the Americans had come to recognize the folly of their conduct in the Suez crisis depend as usual upon a simplistic interpretation of American policy from 1951 , and ignore the fact that in 1958 the intruding powers were able to work with — not against — the grain of local politics . |
| 19 | At the Hope , an Irish band called Mo and McNamara are playing live upon a modest stage . |
| 20 | One main reason for the difficulties considered here is that a settlement usually involves payment of one lump sum in the same way that damages consequent upon a successful court action are also paid in a lump sum . |
| 21 | They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation . |
| 22 | That there are , for instance , kangaroos in Australia and lemurs in Madagascar , and that antelopes rather than dinosaurs currently roam the plains of Africa , is among other things consequent upon a whole series of historical contingencies . |
| 23 | However , these outcomes are contingent upon a supportive infrastructure of values , processes and skills which integrate what the school exists to do with appropriate management strategies which are carried out by individuals with relevant skills and personal qualities . |
| 24 | In interviewing pupils and parents Roger is not constrained by the need to ensure that ‘ acceptance ’ of a place is conditional upon a future wish to leave . |
| 25 | first , those services which are mandatory upon a local authority such as the education of children between the compulsory school ages or the provision of a fire service . |