Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not exist where one of the parent companies may alone decide upon a joint venture company 's commercial activities . |
| 2 | Personnel management could thus draw upon a wealth of experience , a skilled data processing staff and the fact that there already existed a library of programs although none of them were designed to access or process personnel records . |
| 3 | Stories that did not depend upon a season to make their particular point she would place variously in summer , winter , spring or autumn . |
| 4 | This question need not however be pursued since , whatever counsel may have said , it is plain that the district judge did not proceed upon a false hypothesis . |
| 5 | Owing to the provisions of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 C could not rely upon a simple conspiracy to injure but in the House of Lords it was held that he was entitled to succeed on the ground of intimidation . |
| 6 | Instead the formal rules regulating the effects of treaties on third States have a unity and simplicity which do not rely upon an initial classification of treaties . |
| 7 | " The common duty of care does not impose upon an occupier any obligation willingly accepted as his by the visitor . " |
| 8 | It was symbolic , perhaps , of the deep-rooted nature of national instincts that the ECSC could not agree upon a single language in which to conduct its activities . |
| 9 | The Elector Counts can not agree upon a successor and the Empire divides into self-governing provinces . |
| 10 | By virtue of the doctrine of privity of estate the assignee will be liable to the landlord only for breaches of covenant occurring while the lease is vested in it , and that is why a landlord will usually insist upon a direct covenant from the assignee to observe and perform the provisions of the lease during the residue of the term , as in clause 5.9.4 . |
| 11 | Frustrated national movements like those of the Irish , or south Slavs of the Dual Monarchy , of the Armenians in Turkey or the Poles in Russia , could usually rely upon a reflex of ready sympathy in at least some foreign countries . |
| 12 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 13 | An application for a care or supervision order will frequently follow upon an emergency protection order . |
| 14 | Learning to spell may well depend upon an ability to use phonological decoding strategies during reading , for the skilled use of the GPC rules will result in an awareness of the relationships between spelling and sound . |
| 15 | They could never even rely upon a good singing voice — instead there is that distinctive nasal whine . |
| 16 | You might even stumble upon a theorem or two in your researches . |
| 17 | I would urge a few women of a higher class to resolutely enter upon an apprenticeship for this purpose . " |