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 ‘ 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 ) .
3 Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub .
4 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 …
5 Some studies have dwelt solely upon the CU aspect of membership , with a focus upon manufacturing industry .
6 Till rooted deep upon the yielding plain ,
7 The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Most contemporary studies of stratification are based either upon a Marxist or a Weberian perspective .
25 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 .
26 Until 1764 , Josiah had concentrated successfully upon the manufacture of what he called ‘ useful wares ’ , but he had carried out many experiments to improve the rather crude ‘ Egyptian black ’ wares already made by a number of Staffordshire potters .
27 It has been suggested that the decision would have been more convincing had the court focused directly upon the principles of proportionality and legal certainty : the withdrawal of the licence was a disproportionate method of achieving the council 's aims , coupled with the idea that there should be no punishment without breach of an established law .
28 Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs .
29 The fact is that we have entered here upon the theatre of the absurd , as well as the stage of the miraculous .
30 I was stretched full-length upon the bodies , my battered hand resting on the rim of the tub .
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