Example sentences of "exclusively upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article now left the way open for the full expression of the teaching of Pius XI that , though the family had ‘ priority of nature and therefore of rights over civil society ’ , education belonged ‘ preeminently to the Church , by reason of a double title in the supernatural order , conferred exclusively upon her by God himself ; absolutely superior therefore to any other title in the natural order ’ ( 1929 : 5–6 ) . |
| 2 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 3 | According to an observer in Silesia , the speech focused the general discussion of the population , even in Nazi circles , almost exclusively upon the coming war . |
| 4 | So far research has focused almost exclusively upon export crops such as sugar , bananas , cotton and beef and products consumed in urban areas to the neglect of inter-cropped maize , beans , potatoes and barley . |
| 5 | Building a stock exclusively upon the results of this kind of study is bound to lead eventually to some distortion between requirements and provision . |
| 6 | Butterflyfish are prime examples of this group many species of which feed exclusively upon coral polyps while other benthic foragers such as Porcupinefish , Boxfish and Puffers will eat anything they can catch . |
| 7 | The firebird dined exclusively upon golden apples and its powerful wings created strong winds when the bird took to the air ; as he flew , all the other birds would fall silent in awe at his grace . |
| 8 | These lovely girls with long fair hair were actually blood-sucking VAMPIRES who preyed exclusively upon young men as they lay sleeping . |
| 9 | And just as important as the comedy is the sheer pleasure of participating in an event based exclusively upon the shared culture and identity of both performers and audience . |
| 10 | It is no longer a one-to-one relationship in which the counsellor concentrates exclusively upon the feelings and needs of a single person , for other people must now be considered . |
| 11 | The ‘ Sounds in Words ’ part of the test uses a picture-naming approach to elicit words which contain the relevant phonemes ; whereas the EAT focuses exclusively upon consonants , the Goldman-Fristoe test claims to sample all consonants ( except ‘ measure , ) , all vowels and the majority of English diphthongs . |
| 12 | Unfortunately they feed exclusively upon live echinoderms attacking starfishes and sea urchins and can not be acclimatised to substitute foods . |
| 13 | The achievement of multiple economic objectives is especially difficult if the government relies exclusively upon one type of policy which operates essentially through the channel of aggregate demand . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Firstly , why have teachers and students of language concentrated so exclusively upon the production of correct sentences if that is not enough to communicate ? |
| 16 | Their close relatives , the Sea Butterflies , have lost their shall and feed exclusively upon them . |
| 17 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 18 | Concern for air pollution focused exclusively upon visible emissions , especially smoke . |
| 19 | It seems appropriate , therefore , to search for a way of specifying required yields which does not rely exclusively upon historic data . |
| 20 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 21 | In this respect , indeed , there is no difference at all between old and new nations , and it would be quite misleading to concentrate attention exclusively upon the nationalism of the newly independent countries . |