Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , trust in Hitler was not simply based upon an early end to the war , but on an early victorious conclusion , and all the indications are that before late 1942 and early 1943 — centring around Stalingrad , the North African reverses , and the mounting allied air supremacy — only a minority of Germans ( around a third of the population according to American surveys carried out in 1945 ) were prepared to concede that the war was lost . |
| 2 | When the meal is over Roger once again insists upon a ‘ satisfactory ’ degree of silence before pupils are dismissed . |
| 3 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 4 | The premise behind regarding both want and excess as jurisdictional defects , and the breadth of meaning given to excess , are therefore implicitly based upon a Gould type theory . |
| 5 | They could never even rely upon a good singing voice — instead there is that distinctive nasal whine . |