Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] upon an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , two pavements can exhibit an identity of many features — suggesting an almost identical workforce ; on other occasions , e.g. where large numbers of mosaicists were employed ( perhaps four or five craftsmen ) , the similarity of one pavement to another may not be immediately clear , and so relies upon an interpretation of technique and small details of design . |
| 2 | It jerked and looped and lurched energetically , finally landing upon an oak leaf . |
| 3 | Their recommendation to farmers is usually based upon an ad hoc or more systematic land capability assessment . |
| 4 | The existing schemes in the early and mid-1980s were usually based upon an annual interview by a member of the Senior Management Team of a school , or perhaps a head of department . |
| 5 | To a much lesser extent other towns also depended upon an inflow of migrants to maintain their numbers . |
| 6 | An application for a care or supervision order will frequently follow upon an emergency protection order . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moreover , trust in Hitler was not simply based upon an early end to the war , but on an early victorious conclusion , and all the indications are that before late 1942 and early 1943 — centring around Stalingrad , the North African reverses , and the mounting allied air supremacy — only a minority of Germans ( around a third of the population according to American surveys carried out in 1945 ) were prepared to concede that the war was lost . |
| 9 | I would urge a few women of a higher class to resolutely enter upon an apprenticeship for this purpose . " |
| 10 | This factor therefore depends upon an imbalance in power which is based on an imbalance in knowledge . |