Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even these can be criticized only upon the basis of other assumptions . |
| 2 | All production is carried out upon a capitalist basis ; exchanges with non-capitalist economic forms are excluded . |
| 3 | Firstly , it was accepted by all Scots that the coronation of their king was valid only if carried out upon the Stone of Destiny , and in spite of the Christian ceremony accompanying it the right to place the crown on the new monarch 's head belonged irrevocably to the Earl of Fife , premier layman of the realm . |
| 4 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 5 | Just as in reverse discourse the categories of subordination are turned back upon the regimes of truth which disqualify , so this ‘ other ’ sensibility is in part affirmed as an inversion and absence of sensibility 's traditional criteria . |
| 6 | Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub . |
| 7 | Here I must think Wordsworth is deeper than Milton , though I think it has depended more upon the general and gregarious advance of intellect , than individual greatness of Mind From the Paradise Lost and the other Works of Milton , I hope it is not too presuming , even between ourselves to say , that his Philosophy , human and divine , may be tolerably understood by one not much advanced in years … |
| 8 | Some studies have dwelt solely upon the CU aspect of membership , with a focus upon manufacturing industry . |
| 9 | Till rooted deep upon the yielding plain , |
| 10 | The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights . |
| 11 | The " OCCI boom " ( Optical Coincidence Co-ordinate Indexing ) spreading through school resources centres in the early 19705 was not , however , based only upon a misunderstanding about media formats , although there was evidence of a considerable confusion about general principles of information retrieval ; what teachers in particular were signalling ( as I explained in Organizing resources ) was great dissatisfaction with the effectiveness of conventional catalogues in practice . |
| 12 | Any librarian involved in the selection of material is also constantly in touch with readers , so that an over-theoretical approach based merely upon the bibliographical and logistic aspects of provision is more likely to be avoided . |
| 13 | In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by . |
| 14 | This argument , based apparently upon the particular circumstances of a young woman in New Zealand whose daughter was unfortunate enough to grow up in care , itself an unusual experience , is dangerous and partial stuff . |
| 15 | So , educational programmes should be based not upon the assumption of commonality of purpose , interest and ability but upon the assumption of individual differences . |
| 16 | In an attempt to resolve the dispute the heads of the Jordanian , Palestinian and Israeli delegations held daily discussions in a State Department corridor , and the Palestinian side called unsuccessfully upon the USA to intervene . |
| 17 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 18 | Like them , it was based originally upon the household , and the household continued to have significance even after the formation of other less personal structures . |
| 19 | Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) . |
| 20 | The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived . |
| 21 | Neither the economic policy of a nation nor the political programme of a party is likely to achieve a successful dynamism if it is based solely upon the assistance of lame ducks . |
| 22 | Furthermore you can establish a company pension scheme based solely upon the investment of the National Insurance contributions for no extra cost to the employer or employees . |
| 23 | At one extreme , the ‘ transformed cladists ’ , or ‘ natural order systematists ’ , argue that classification should be based solely upon the perceived patterns of distribution of characters of organisms . |
| 24 | In the Ogwo case , the decision is based solely upon the neighbour principle , the issue before the court being whether the injuries sustained by the plaintiff were foreseeable . |
| 25 | Hailey 's reservations about Indirect Rule were based purely upon the practical consideration that in its dogmatic insistence on working only through the authentic traditional leadership it excluded other , possibly more effective , methods of securing the essential ‘ degree of acquiescence ’ in British rule . |
| 26 | And just as important as the comedy is the sheer pleasure of participating in an event based exclusively upon the shared culture and identity of both performers and audience . |
| 27 | Thus , the new version of English ( often now explicitly distinguished from " English Language arid Literature " ) offered a sense of ontological security as well as a pedagogic programme , based particularly upon a conception of self generating and autonomous value . |
| 28 | Sharing accommodation with relatives on a permanent basis is not regarded as a desirable option in contemporary British culture , where the image of the normal household is based firmly upon the nuclear family : typically a married couple and their immature children , with possibly the addition of an elderly parent . |
| 29 | Most contemporary studies of stratification are based either upon a Marxist or a Weberian perspective . |
| 30 | Employers refused to recognize their right to negotiate and called freely upon the State for armed support against worker protest , as in the case of the Lena goldfields strike in 1912 . |