Example sentences of "also [verb] upon " in BNC.

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1 And we are also drawing upon elementary common sense .
2 Reliance was also placed upon the power of absolute and immediate distress in the statute .
3 It also imposes upon local government a range of duties .
4 But we need to note that lexis can also act upon grammar .
5 ‘ They should also focus upon the achievement of clear environmental results and not on detailed , prescribed management practices . ’
6 Rutt also drew upon the 1659 record to annotate , supplement , and modify Burton 's .
7 Two other books — Shakespeare 's Imagination ( 1946 ) and St. Francis : Nature Mystic ( 1973 ) — also drew upon his ornithological knowledge , making each the definitive contribution in its field .
8 While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War .
9 For the plants man sows also depend upon microbes within the soil for their growth and existence .
10 It would also improve upon January 's brutal monetary reform , which tried to deal with savings by confiscating some of them : the new plan would raise interest rates to encourage consumers to leave their money in the bank .
11 I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive .
12 In his travels he also came upon the lost Elf realm of Athel-Loren .
13 Their movement also depends upon which foot is in front .
14 This definition stresses that readability is not merely a matter of legibility but also depends upon factors affecting comprehension and motivation .
15 Where you keep the major portion of your money also depends upon what additional services you are like to require from your ‘ bank ’ .
16 At this point it should be remembered that the proportion of the population which any particular age cohort constitutes during its lifetime is not only or indeed not mainly a function of its own initial size and subsequent mortality rate : it also depends upon the absolute size of all other cohorts and their mortality rates .
17 It also depends upon a curious form of photosynthesis when it makes sugar from carbon dioxide , water and sunlight .
18 Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists .
19 Much also depends upon local employment conditions , for , with a few exceptions , the greatest decline has taken place where there has been the greatest competition for labour , principally in the South East , in the West Midlands and in South Wales .
20 The use of tests also depends upon certain assumptions about the nature of the data , such as whether or not it is normally distributed , is of roughly equal within-group variability and reflects independent observations .
21 McGregor 's approach suggests that motivation also depends upon relations with others as well as the individual 's own nature .
22 But if this state of comparative retirement owed much to his desire to experience as fully as possible the companionship of marriage , it was also imposed upon him by the demands of his still fragile health .
23 It also bears upon our understanding of tumour progression , because it implies that cells in which one p53 allele has been somatically mutated may have a survival advantage in the presence of genotoxic agents ( for example ultraviolet exposure of skin ) over those that have two intact copies of the gene .
24 It is also built upon shared cultural , religious and political values , which take the relationship beyond a governmental one — the only relationship possible between the Soviet and Arab governments — into the democratic constituency of both states .
25 It has also drawn upon the experience of two of its members in broadcasting and recording .
26 His renunciation also rested upon a dubious legal sentence of 1202 , a punitive measure against King John by Philip Augustus .
27 In late July the parallel committee of the House of Representatives had also agreed upon a much-reduced defence bill upon which the House was due to vote after the summer recess .
28 Observing that the effective school can help the disadvantaged child to make use of the opportunities schools provide , the report also commented upon the scale of the contribution which the effective school could make .
29 And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York .
30 The Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite had also dwelt upon a thick cloud of unknowing that separates the ineffable God from mankind and this image dominated Greek theology .
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