Example sentences of "[adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , all assumptions about external reality are suspended ( ‘ bracketed ’ ) and the theorist focuses entirely upon his field of immediate experience . |
| 2 | Which schools the police visit depends entirely upon the head teachers , and little work is done with grammar schools . |
| 3 | His fate would depend entirely upon her mood , which he knew from experience could shift and change in the winking of an eye . |
| 4 | Many highly successful modern animals , from earthworms to octopuses , rely almost entirely upon hydrostatic pressure to create their body forms . |
| 5 | It is clear that if a method of examining use is to be devised which does not lean entirely upon the librarian 's judgement , that method must be sophisticated enough to take into account the many variable factors . |
| 6 | At the same time , a system which relies entirely upon departmental selection is bound to result in lack of balance . |
| 7 | And this too is why the word can even be extended to all those who rely entirely upon the mercy of God — the poor in spirit ’ ( Matt. |
| 8 | The stiffness of the monoblock boot depends entirely upon it , and injection-moulded plastic midsoles of a thickness suited to the size of boot are now commonplace . |
| 9 | Sherman ( 1981 ) has developed a useful alternative theory which he called the ‘ Social Breakdown Syndrome ’ , which involves a more comprehensive explanation than those which focus entirely upon individual pathology . |
| 10 | By choosing the right substance to crystallize on a surface one can often get the new crystals to form almost entirely upon the fine irregularities of the surface and thus show them up . |
| 11 | First , the research relating to employment focused almost entirely upon men ( with the exception of Le Gros Clark 1962 ) , whilst that into medical and social conditions studied mainly women . |
| 12 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 13 | Researched and compiled by Alan Webb and published by him care of the Mosquito Aircraft Museum , At First Sight is a magnificent and original unit history , based entirely upon accounts written by former 627 Squadron members . |
| 14 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 15 | Whilst it is not inconsistent for liberals to hold a theory of distributive justice , for in a sense any advocacy of the free market implies certain distributive consequences , the ‘ harm to interests ’ theorists can not deny that their theory of obligation rests entirely upon a cryptic theory of distributive justice rather than an extrapolation of fundamental precepts of liberalism . |
| 16 | Punk rock was over by then anyway ( real punks claimed it finished in 1976 , but who were the ‘ real ’ punks ? ) and in its place there was an orgy of cross-cultural pollination , based entirely upon received ideas . |
| 17 | Men like Hickes and Wriothesley , confidential men of business for the great , relied almost entirely upon such douceurs . |
| 18 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 19 | It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects . |
| 20 | Thus any analysis of modern racism should not be focused entirely upon majority groups ' images and stereotypes of minority groups . |
| 21 | The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights . |
| 22 | While each family possessed a few reindeer for harnessing to sledges , they had no herds , and depended entirely upon hunting wild deer , which they followed or waylaid on their seasonal migrations . |
| 23 | Roskill L.J. , although endorsing , at p. 311H , the reasons given by the Master of the Rolls , otherwise based his judgment entirely upon the undertaking . |
| 24 | The National Health Service relies almost entirely upon Central Government assessment of its budgetary needs . |
| 25 | It is important to realise that the allege irreducibility of " greater than " and other similar relations to qualitative " properties turns entirely upon this assumption . |
| 26 | The stone-deaf person relies entirely upon sight throughout every phase of life , and not upon hearing , and , therefore , this sense of sight is developed to an extraordinary degree of efficiency from sheer necessity . |
| 27 | They are among the safest of all sections of the community using the roads , simply because they rely entirely upon their sight at all times and under all circumstances . " |
| 28 | The debate among trade union tutors has concentrated almost entirely upon the content and organisation of the TUC day-release scheme . |
| 29 | In both instances , the focus of attention is entirely upon the actions of the defendant . |
| 30 | Before the coming of the railway the works relied almost entirely upon barge transport for the supply of coke and river mud and for the transport of the finished products . |