Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] upon a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , two pavements can exhibit an identity of many features — suggesting an almost identical workforce ; on other occasions , e.g. where large numbers of mosaicists were employed ( perhaps four or five craftsmen ) , the similarity of one pavement to another may not be immediately clear , and so relies upon an interpretation of technique and small details of design . |
| 2 | Any employee at Coniston Mines during the 19th Century would fall into one of two distinct categories : ( 1 ) a dayworker , whose wages were generally based upon a rate of so much per day but which was variable depending upon the degree of skill required , yet at times might be calculated on a piece rate , or , ( 2 ) a miner engaged in winning ore from the stopes , tunnelling , raising , or shaft sinking through rock . |
| 3 | Personnel management could thus draw upon a wealth of experience , a skilled data processing staff and the fact that there already existed a library of programs although none of them were designed to access or process personnel records . |
| 4 | The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals . |
| 5 | He usually sits upon a bench at a round stone table , resting his head in his hands , sleeping . |
| 6 | Dr Neil had seen her few poor items of food decently arranged upon a napkin in the bottom of the basket , and there seemed little doubt that she was actually living in the district — although why he could not imagine . |
| 7 | Frustrated national movements like those of the Irish , or south Slavs of the Dual Monarchy , of the Armenians in Turkey or the Poles in Russia , could usually rely upon a reflex of ready sympathy in at least some foreign countries . |
| 8 | However , he also relied upon a number of criticisms of the judge 's summing up . |
| 9 | To a much lesser extent other towns also depended upon an inflow of migrants to maintain their numbers . |
| 10 | In this vein , nationalism is described as if it were some independent ideology , strangely based upon a sense of belonging to a particular national or ethnic group , with its traditions and a so-called common history . |
| 11 | When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage . |
| 12 | I would urge a few women of a higher class to resolutely enter upon an apprenticeship for this purpose . " |
| 13 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 14 | This factor therefore depends upon an imbalance in power which is based on an imbalance in knowledge . |