Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall therefore look more closely at their teachings , partly because of the ecumenical value of an awareness of their doctrine , but mainly because we can thereby focus much more clearly upon what religions mean by ‘ God ’ . |
| 2 | He lay down once more upon the bench and , his lungs filled with a crush of flower essence , began to speak . |
| 3 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 4 | VFM auditing is not new , and in many ways Britain is now only explicitly upon a path that other countries have already followed . |
| 5 | Ideally as we get more and more teachers involved in the work we do , initial training will be based even more firmly upon school experience . |
| 6 | This form of ‘ social Darwinism ’ emphasized the destructive capacity of struggle , but drew even more heavily upon pre-Darwinian models of historical development , which had now become fashionable in the age of imperialism . |
| 7 | The Socialist leadership 's sensitivity to FNTT members ' expectations meant that agrarian issues pressed even more urgently upon it than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 8 | It is a telling commentary upon parliament but even more so upon the church 's limited political potency : at that stage , the clergy needed the support not just of the commons but of the peers as well in order to defend effectively their privileges and franchises ; repeal was effected in the council and chiefly through the agency of the lords ; when the prelates contemplated a riposte in convocation they were instantly quelled by writs of prohibition . |
| 9 | Senior staff depend very heavily therefore upon the man in the field , as one of them acknowledged : |