Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] upon [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such knowledge forms a single system in each individual person so that his actions and his accounts are performances drawing only upon one corpus of knowledge . |
| 2 | By an incomes policy I take it that , for the purposes of our discussion , we mean an attempt to influence the value of money by operating directly upon specific prices ; and price of course includes earnings , i.e. the price of a quantity of labour in a particular application . |
| 3 | Poising acrobatically upon one leg then the other , Meh'Lindi proceeded to spray her body from toe to neck with black synthetic skin . |
| 4 | It was literally carbonized , lacking a roof and rattling noisily upon four tyreless rims . |
| 5 | They felt that such schemes allowed young people to have direct experience of engineering rather than relying purely upon second-hand information ( from teachers or the media ) . |
| 6 | This was because the field now included more subtle nasty strategies capable of preying ruthlessly upon such an out-and-out softy . |
| 7 | Such individuals , who would be described as good readers , are able to use the preceding context to reduce the number of possible words which could occur at the end of the sentence , making use of many sources of information and not relying exclusively upon any one source . |
| 8 | The regulatory enforcement agent in routine cases adopts a compliance strategy which follows a serial pattern , a loosely structured but none the less organized process relying heavily upon negotiated conformity , with a gradual increase in pressure being applied to the unco-operative . |
| 9 | The famous 1889 ‘ Appeal ’ against women 's suffrage , signed by 104 women , viewed women 's direct participation in national politics as impossible ‘ either by the disabilities of sex , or by strong formations of custom and habit resting ultimately upon physical difference against which it is useless to contend ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 10 | As the last title implies , anthropologists of this persuasion concentrate upon categories of thought and native philosophies or theories of knowledge ( which they often call ‘ conceptual systems ’ ) , drawing heavily upon linguistic theory and methods in an effort to achieve increasingly rigorous and exhaustive inventories of alien concepts and beliefs . |
| 11 | It was following immediately upon this that , on 10 September , Leslie wrote to me excitedly about a small enemy landing — a fact that was finally denied , and explained by Attlee in Parliament only in 1946 . |
| 12 | Following hard upon this came the issue of a set of stamps to commemorate the anniversary of Poland 's rebirth in November 1918 . |
| 13 | Apart from a few lone voices ( see , for example , R. F. Kahn 's evidence to the Radcliffe Committee in 1958 ) , most economists tended to shunt the problem of inflation to the nether recesses of their minds , concentrating instead upon other , more pressing problems such as the difficulties of reconciling a high level of employment with balance of payments equilibrium . |