Example sentences of "[v-ing] upon and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time Common Market food surpluses moulder away all over Europe , and Geldof rounding upon and ranting rudely at those responsible — on the floor of the European parliament — did n't even provoke a blush from those portly and clarety gents . |
| 2 | In this paper we will argue that the presence or absence of disability culture , and involvement of disabled people in the arts , is an indication of the general state of their success in reflecting upon and managing their own affairs . |
| 3 | Throughout , the emphasis will be on inderdisciplinary enquiry , drawing upon and trying to integrate wherever possible psychological and sociological ( theoretical and research ) perspectives . |
| 4 | It is drawing upon and developing the recent work of Harvard economists in the USA and will use data from some of the case studies which figure in the other projects , as well as econometric analysis at the industry level . |
| 5 | Instead a means of legitimating the power of corporate managers can be found by drawing upon and transforming the deviations within current legal thought . |
| 6 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |