Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] upon a " in BNC.
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1 | But many older titles are still dependent upon an understanding of its conveyancing procedures . |
2 | Because it always involves raw materials and techniques it is always dependent Upon a context , and is not to be thought of , in humanist vein , as an isolated expression of the essential creativity of human beings . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And yet we know the conditions under which the sequence was written and notice how fragile it is , how much a willed order , and how dependent upon a bravura performance — and suspect that it is from these elements that the permanent value of the poetry springs . |
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 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Independent research by economic consultants Pieda estimates that 71,000 jobs in the UK are currently dependent upon a viable Scotch Whisky Industry . |