Example sentences of "and [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | I endeavoured to believe that much , if not all of what I felt , was due to the bewildering influence of the gloomy furniture in the room — of the dark and tattered draperies , which , tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest , swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls , and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed . |
| 2 | Or better still find the source , the cassette player , and rip out the cassette and jump up and down upon it until it is smashed into little pieces . |
| 3 | try , for example , examining the detail of something several yards away while jumping up and down upon the spot . |
| 4 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 5 | Comment centred upon being taken ‘ through into the picture ’ , upon its structure and organization and especially upon the interaction of colours and paint qualities . |
| 6 | The phenomenon depends upon an exchange of benefits and not upon the fact that , as in Hamilton 's theory , the gene in question benefits its duplicate in another organism . |
| 7 | When we try to look into ourselves we always seem to come upon some particular thought or feeling , and not upon the ‘ I ’ which has the thought or feeling . |
| 8 | All of this makes sense in relation to the historical context of England in particular where , on MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) evidence , social and economic structures have been based upon a strong sense of individualism , and not upon traditional ties of kinship , for at least 600 years . |
| 9 | In making the distinction the writer was upholding the Enlightenment philosophy that conclusions should be based upon rationality and not upon psychological dispositions . |
| 10 | ‘ If a writer could … base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention ’ , said Virginia Woolf , in her celebrated essay , ‘ Modern fiction ’ , ‘ there would be no plot , no comedy , no tragedy , no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style … ’ . |
| 11 | 52 shows that , in circumstances similar to those of the Wilts United Dairies case , recovery could be , and indeed there was , founded upon compulsion and not upon the simple fact that the money was paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand : see [ 1925 ] 1 K.B . |
| 12 | The stone-deaf person relies entirely upon sight throughout every phase of life , and not upon hearing , and , therefore , this sense of sight is developed to an extraordinary degree of efficiency from sheer necessity . |
| 13 | This emphasis on control , despite all the evidence that this is precisely what is being progressively lost , focusses the sufferer 's mind all the time on self and not upon others . |
| 14 | The Acts of Parliament which carried out the privatisations and established the powers of the regulatory agencies lay the various duties upon the Directors of the various industries and not upon the regulatory agencies as corporate bodies . |
| 15 | That is , in the UK the requirement to register an agreement is based upon the precise legal form of an agreement and not upon its effects on competition . |
| 16 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 17 | Although Wren 's celebrated dome was not , in fact molested , the high-rise guidelines focused solely upon picturesque views and not upon symbolism ; with the result that St Paul 's is no longer the crowning achievement of the city , but dwarfed to seeming like a pimple upon a buttock . |
| 18 | I do emphasise this definition , which relies upon the influence upon the value of money being direct , being exercised upon particular prices ; for of course all economic policies have an effect upon the value of money and thus upon prices , including incomes . |
| 19 | But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon men that and his righteousness Joy be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost . |
| 20 | Secondly , I do not think it does a college principal any harm to operate in a different framework , see how others organise themselves and bring a principal 's view to bear upon validation exercises — and possibly upon SCOTVEC itself ! |
| 21 | As Sartre insists more and more upon the virtues of specificity ( II , 200 — 05 ) , such is his distaste for Marxist or any other universalizing categories that he refuses even to countenance them , attempting to replace concepts with specificities , universals with singulars . |
| 22 | The criminal law may depend less upon one monolithic principle and more upon a synthesis of conflicting principles . |
| 23 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |
| 24 | Although the advertising industry is almost promiscuous in its use of verbal slogans , the creative emphasis falls more and more upon the persuasive power of imagery — slow motion shots demonstrating the lustrous lightness of newly washed hair , or the soft resilience of freshly laundered towels — in fact it would be tiresome to list the repertoire of non-verbal devices deliberately designed to by-pass a critical vigilance based upon language . |
| 25 | The ecumenical movement has reversed three centuries of division which began with the failure of the Savoy Conference in 1661 and the imposition of the Act of Uniformity , Today , Holy Communion is celebrated more frequently and with a set liturgy , often in an ‘ Anglican ’ way ; set prayers are common and sometimes take a responsory form ; the increasing use of a lectionary means that the choice of readings depends less upon the whim of the preacher and more upon an ordered scheme . |
| 26 | The nature of the soil depends upon the climate ( which breaks down the rocks ) , upon the kinds of rocks involved ( hard , soft , limy , granitic ) and partly upon their age . |
| 27 | Just how extensive a lord 's rights would be in these circumstances would depend partly upon local custom and partly upon the relative power of lord and vassal . |
| 28 | The picture which is offered in this and the next chapter is not fully comprehensive and depends partly upon the knowledge of some of the Commission 's members , and partly upon the submissions and correspondence which were received . |
| 29 | For instance , childhood conduct disorder may often lead to anti-social behaviour in adulthood , but this may reflect either the continuity of the disorder or the different effects of the same social stress acting first upon a child and later upon an adult ( Graham , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | Similarly , what is the impact upon the economy , and also upon the whole political system , of the pattern of employment that has emerged as social policy has become ‘ big business ’ ? |