Example sentences of "than upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality — or modality — of the experience depends less upon the quality of energy reaching the nervous system than upon which parts of the sensory system are activated : stimulation of the retinal receptors causes an experience of light ; stimulation of the receptors in the inner ear gives rise to the experience of sound ; and so on . |
| 2 | A monument he has erected to his wife ( née Brobity ) is more of an encomium upon his own virtues than upon hers ; his father . |
| 3 | Relationships ( of any kind ) which are based upon love , rather than upon the need for security or self-esteem , are marked by : |
| 4 | As Michael Benton puts it in The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning : ‘ The development of a methodology that is based upon informed concepts of reading and response rather than upon conventional , narrowly-conceived ideas of comprehension and criticism is now the priority ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 5 | Of course some boys may be asked to perform some or all of these tasks , but I think that ( for historical rather than biological reasons ) the task of substitute-mothering is more likely to devolve upon a girl than upon a boy who is in a similar position within the family . |
| 6 | The Piaroa , for instance , place emphasis upon marriage ties in the development of community rather than upon the ties of descent . |
| 7 | In France , for instance , a country not included in the comparison , the bursts of activity and membership growth — interspersed with long periods of relative dormancy — seem to have depended more on political events ( as in 1936 , 1947 , and post-1968 ) than upon changing economic circumstances ( Sellier , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 9 | Initial research suggests , for example , that black students in Further Education colleges may view education in a utilitarian manner , placing more emphasis upon the credentials available within FE than upon their culturally specific or anti-racist provision ( FEU , 1985a ; Reeves , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | It has been generalist rather than specific , its programme being based upon each child 's interests and abilities ( rather than upon an external authority 's projection of what they ought to be ) . |
| 11 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 12 | A fertile soil is dependent upon its physical structure just as much , if not more so , than upon its mere plant nutrient content . |
| 13 | None the less , there remains a focus upon the child as having needs rather than upon the situation as creating needs ( Oliver 1988 ) . |
| 14 | Its viability depends less on the final validity of its basic assumptions than upon its own internal logical coherence and appropriateness in the lives of those who acquiesce in or profess it . |
| 15 | The cost is basing class theory on domination , like elite theorists , rather than upon Marxist theories of exploitation ( Wright , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Froissart 's account of the way in which many of the leading French nobility , by going forward at the battle of Crécy , in effect chose the likelihood of death to a dishonourable flight , suggests to the modern reader a group more intent upon self-immolation than upon the serious business of achieving victory through order and discipline . |
| 17 | In a climate of opinion which laid greater stress upon collective success than upon the fame or reputation of any one individual , could the desire for fame , which might impair the effectiveness of the army , survive ? |
| 18 | Some , such as Robert Owen , among socialists , and conservatives such as Thomas Carlyle , had argued from the beginning of industrial capitalism in Britain that the source of the unequal distribution of wealth , income and power lay in the competitive , individualistic nature of the new economic system and the values it perpetuated and strengthened : the emphasis upon individual rather than co-operative effort , upon self-help for all rather than upon mutual obligation , such as the responsibility of the rich to help the poor in return for their labour . |
| 19 | The emphasis of the legislation , as of philanthropic effort , was upon the removal of the child from a corrupting environment , rather than upon improvement within that environment which was still seen as too intractable a task . |
| 20 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |
| 21 | The middle class families handed on their accumulating industrial wealth within a system of partible inheritance which demanded a more severe morality , imposing higher standards upon women than upon men . |
| 22 | It has been argued that the present day focus of international law is upon disputes relating to parties ' interests in satisfying needs , and values , rather than upon formalistic attention to rights . |
| 23 | This focuses upon the subject matter of the treaty , its scope , object and purpose , rather than upon the identity of its parties . |
| 24 | The political and moral education of the boy and apprentice knight depended less upon the teaching of the church than upon the chansons de geste sung by minstrels . |
| 25 | What these sins were Roger of Howden does not tell us and any guess is bound to be a subjective one , reflecting upon ourselves and upon our age rather than upon Richard 's behaviour . |
| 26 | The proofs of 1.3.9 , 1.4.4 and in particular the Division Algorithm 1.4.5 make use of the fact that property W holds in Z. Since , despite exercise 1.7.4 , Q[x] does not seem to satisfy W ( try it ! ) , we are fortunate that the appropriate analogue for Q[x] of 1.4.5 depends upon Z , rather than upon Q[x] , satisfying W. We obtain this analogue in 1.10.1 . |
| 27 | Within the new universities one response to this perception of student " inadequacy " was to engage in a certain amount of disciplinary " cross-fertilization " ; and to depend more upon the " civilizing power " of a few " great books " considered to have some contemporary " relevance " than upon a " professional " approach to English studies . |
| 28 | This is essentially a linguistic problem , whose solution probably depends as much upon the range of your vocabulary , and your response to the stimulus of words , rather than upon your capacity to reason formally through a set of data in order to arrive at a valid solution . |
| 29 | Half these benefices , however , were filled by their lay patrons , and of the rest most devolved , in consequence of alert and vigorous episcopal action , upon the diocesan bishop rather than upon the pope . |
| 30 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |