Example sentences of "rather [conj] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relationships ( of any kind ) which are based upon love , rather than upon the need for security or self-esteem , are marked by : |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The Piaroa , for instance , place emphasis upon marriage ties in the development of community rather than upon the ties of descent . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | None the less , there remains a focus upon the child as having needs rather than upon the situation as creating needs ( Oliver 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The cost is basing class theory on domination , like elite theorists , rather than upon Marxist theories of exploitation ( Wright , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This focuses upon the subject matter of the treaty , its scope , object and purpose , rather than upon the identity of its parties . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In this sense , their post-1980 labour relations initiatives are premised on an implicit understanding that flexibility in work organization is dependent upon worker commitment to company goals , rather than upon sophisticated control techniques ( Walton , 1985 : 78 ) . |
| 17 | There is not so much advocacy to be done ; much of the work is non-litigious ( such as drafting documents and advising on title ) , and the cases that do get into court tend to turn upon technicalities of company law , taxation , property and wills , or upon questions of company finance , rather than upon controversial questions of fact . |
| 18 | These new entrepreneurs — the bourgeoisie-relied for their accumulated economic wealth on the ownership of machines and factories rather than upon land . |
| 19 | A further gloss on this quieter side of his character appears during Johnson 's own reflection in ( rather than upon ) Montrose — where he comments that he has by now had an opportunity to compare Scotland 's beggars with others he has seen . |
| 20 | Marital : Many a parental marriage is broken by the amount of focus put on the problems of the child primary sufferer rather than Upon improving the marital relationship and giving each other support in the time of crisis . |
| 21 | In practice much more of counselling focuses upon perceptions and feelings rather than upon facts and the end result most commonly is helping the sufferer to focus upon a question rather than an answer . |
| 22 | His normally responsive facial expression was firmly controlled ; an Oxford contemporary remembered that for all its serenity an observer seemed ‘ to be gazing upon some great portrait of a face rather than upon a face ’ . |
| 23 | Although the historical approach to physical geography had prompted an approach often styled as denudation chronology , the emphasis had been upon the sequence of denudation rather than upon chronology strictly connoted as the science of computing dates . |
| 24 | Emphasis was still largely placed upon Tertiary rather than upon the most recent stages of Quaternary time . |
| 25 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 26 | B8 ) as depending upon the universal tendency towards adjustment of form and process ; to direct investigation towards the essentially multivariate character of geomorphic phenomena ; to admit a more liberal view of morphological changes with time to include the possibility of non-significant or non-progressive changes of certain aspects of landscape form through time ; to foster a dynamic approach to geomorphology to complement the historical one ; to focus upon the whole landscape assemblage rather than upon those parts assumed to have evolutionary significance ; to encourage geomorphic investigations in those areas where evidence for erosional history may be deficient ; and to direct attention to the heterogeneity of spatial organization . |
| 27 | The actual configuration taken up in a solvent , in the liquid or in the solid , will , however , depend upon the sum total of all the interactions whether intrachain or interchain rather than upon the nearest neighbours only . |
| 28 | Doolittle ( 1952 ) reconsidered Batschinski 's suggestion that the resistance to flow of a liquid depended upon the free-space available to a molecule rather than upon the temperature . |
| 29 | If the attention of the theorist is focused upon a particular state of affairs — equilibrium — rather than upon the market process , the adjective ‘ competitive ’ can not be used in the sense of the characteristic of a process . |
| 30 | It was based on numerous small workshops rather than upon the large factories that characterized the Lancashire cotton industry . |