Example sentences of "upon a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas sin θ , cos θ and tan θ are projected from a circle , sinh θ , cosh θ and than θ are based upon a hyperbola. cosh x = ch x ( abbreviation ) = sinh x = sh x = sinh x = tanh x = th x = tanh x = = = |
| 2 | Sometimes when I 've been up early at home walking in the woods and come upon a roe deer close to , motionless , its alarm and scenting has reminded me of her . |
| 3 | Sturt 's Letter your Lordship will find some interesting remarks upon a species of Gallinule to which I have given the name of Tribonyx ventralis and which I shall shortly publish in my work … ’ |
| 4 | She hit upon a pair of corduroy breeches which would fit snugly at the waist but balloon over the hips , with highly-polished brown leather boots for a touch of chic , a maroon Italian sweater , which at 15p at a jumble sale had been a real snip , and a jaunty maroon beret . |
| 5 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 6 | Arriving at an itinerant workers ’ hostel in LA he discovers the terrible truth about life when he happens upon a pair of magic sunglasses . |
| 7 | Towards nightfall they came upon a pair of small caves , which Miss Fergusson compared to the pressing of God 's thumb into the mountainside . |
| 8 | In its leaning position parallels are inevitably drawn with Pisa , yet the tower based upon a pair of translucent cliffs modelled on the Old Man of Hoy takes the romance of Scottishness to its ultimate conclusion . |
| 9 | Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas . |
| 10 | It is useful to conceptualize referral as a process depending upon a series of linkages between different organizations and individuals who bring cases to public attention ( Gough et al . , |
| 11 | Before they reached the towering stack of containers , between which ran innumerable alleyways where no faint light penetrated , they came upon a series of deck hatches . |
| 12 | In addition , Parliament embarked upon a series of attempts to eradicate the practice of the monarch having ‘ placemen ’ in Parliament by disqualifying for membership of Parliament all who held an office of profit under the Crown . |
| 13 | the implementation of strategies will in themselves depend greatly upon a series of further conditioning variables such as managerial organisation , patterns of authority within the management hierarchy and , above all , upon the power of oppositional groups ( especially trade unions ) . |
| 14 | Clearly the Lele world-view is built upon a series of structural associations and contrasts . |
| 15 | The precise nature of this balance hinges upon a series of strategic choices linking novel and established marketing and production priorities within an overall change agenda . |
| 16 | In each appeal reliance was placed upon a series of cases in which it has been affirmed that where the liberty of the subject is in issue , the proper procedures must be strictly observed . |
| 17 | It drew upon a series of speeches he had made in the late autumn , particularly an address to an all-union student forum . |
| 18 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |
| 19 | On his return to the United States , Williams embarked upon a series of lectures on Negro issues , and more specifically , issues concerning the Negro in the Caribbean . |
| 20 | France created a powerful centralized bureaucracy to override local power and ensure a direct supply of resources to sustain the armies of the Crown ; England 's monarchy was dependent upon a gentry that supplied the armed forces , administered local justice , sat in Parliament and paid the taxes upon which the royal armies depended . |
| 21 | The HPF compiler , demonstrated at the supercomputing show , is based upon a data parallel language — an optimising Fortran90D compiler — developed by Syracuse group and backed by funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , DARPA . |
| 22 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |