Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 3 | The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside . |
| 4 | The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage . |
| 5 | His eye lit again upon the dinosaur . |
| 6 | Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority . |
| 7 | During most of the 1950s and 1960s UK governments as a whole concentrated predominantly upon the employment objective , with the balance of payments frequently exerting a cons-traint on the achievement of this goal . |
| 8 | ‘ Who 's there ? ’ she murmured , and her head turned restlessly upon the pillows . |
| 9 | His long gaunt bony head lay heavily upon the white lace-fringed pillow which Moxie had put in place , the flesh of his thin forearms , emerging from spotlessly clean pyjamas , was like wax . |
| 10 | The stripper gyrated slowly upon the tiny square of painted hardboard at the end of the bar . |
| 11 | The naïve , almost religious basis of belief in Hitler is clearly visible in such reports , which show too , however , that people were above all listening in Hitler 's speeches for hints of an early end to the war , and that his popular standing depended heavily upon the fulfilment of such hopes . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the campaign television focused more upon the two-party Labour versus Conservative battle and public expectations about Alliance performance declined . |
| 13 | Indignation is anger targeted precisely upon an action which deserves it and upon whoever has performed it . ’ |
| 14 | At last , however , the door fell inwards upon the carpet . |
| 15 | The political and moral education of the boy and apprentice knight depended less upon the teaching of the church than upon the chansons de geste sung by minstrels . |
| 16 | ‘ If this matter rested solely upon the question of the best interests of the children I should have no doubt whatever that their welfare would be better served by their remaining in England in order that their future be determined by the High Court here . |
| 17 | To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment . |
| 18 | In 1922 the chief drainage engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture reflected thus upon the constructive uses to which he had put the heroes home from the trenches : |
| 19 | Another sporting triumph followed hard upon the conquest of Everest and gave added reassurance to the nation , especially those steeped in the amateur spirit for whom the demolition of English professional football by Puskas and the Hungarians was not a matter for much regret . |
| 20 | There was real distinction about his elegant yet powerful performance , but further misery descended cruelly upon the Scots 18 minutes into the second half . |
| 21 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 22 | According to Planck 's equation [ 1 ] the quantity of energy depended directly upon the frequency . |