Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] upon [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much depends upon their feeling empowered to reverse expansionist trends . |
| 2 | The places where living things live , the ways that they live and the relationships between them , crucially depend upon their ability to acquire the materials they need to keep themselves intact . |
| 3 | The pupils had obviously reflected upon their experience because this session was much more successful with more searching and carefully worded questions . |
| 4 | Now that such liability is firmly established , the question becomes whether persons who give advice or perform services should be liable to all persons who may foreseeably rely upon their work being properly performed with all due care . |
| 5 | Not rejecting them , not ceasing to love them , but slowly building up a new role and identity which no longer depends upon their presence for its satisfactory functioning . |
| 6 | So great was the similarity that I dared no longer lay upon my back . |
| 7 | Anyone who find , Hobbes 's view intellectually attractive will easily hit upon his thesis that someone who feels pity is simply moved by the self-centred thought ‘ that the like calamity may befall himself ’ , and that people are benevolent only because this produces self-satisfaction . |
| 8 | Nor could Chamberlain ever show how a preference within the low tariffs , which were the most that Britain would conceivably tolerate upon her food or raw materials , could make the difference , as he constantly reiterated , between Imperial consolidation and Imperial dissolution . |
| 9 | Such was her hope and her intent , but once launched upon her exposition she quickly found herself confused by the royal actors of the Art . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The sacred god-prince of birds in Sanskrit mythology , Garuda is the enemy of snakes and loyal servant of VISHNU and LAKSHMI , his wife , who both ride upon his back . |
| 12 | This allocation of power by Pepin was probably based upon his recognition of a feud between Charles and Carloman who , of course , remained unfriendly towards one another after their respective crownings and inheritances . |
| 13 | Historical understanding ( at least in the early stages of exploring a topic ) often depends upon your ability to recognise the ways in which people , ideas or events are similar and different . |
| 14 | In commercial computer applications , he believes sound will be particularly important in collaborative tasks , where people need to be alert to what colleagues are doing , without having it distractingly thrust upon their attention . |
| 15 | My eventual decision may very well depend upon your behaviour over the next few weeks . |
| 16 | Having commented upon the gentleness and generosity of the Caribs , he immediately reflected upon their vulnerability and upon how easily they might be enslaved . |
| 17 | It had not crossed Flora 's mind that St Saviour 's might need payment for teaching her , only that her place there depended upon her ability to have the right uniform , all the uniform , down to the last sock garter and science overall . |
| 18 | Indeed he claimed that he sometimes drew upon his knowledge of British policies and methods — past and present — when developing his own ideas . |
| 19 | The Gramophone Company 's record-producer Fred Gaisberg had the idea of carrying out a recording session ‘ supervised ’ by Sir Edward Elgar , then lying upon his deathbed in Worcestershire . |
| 20 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 21 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the national health service management reforms , with the forthcoming trust status and record amounts of money being spent on the health service in Wales , will enable the health service there to build upon its success of treating record numbers of patients ? |
| 22 | Watching these high speed ants on the Bombay verandah , I was impressed by the fact that ants travelling in different directions upon their highway stopped dead upon meeting , touched each other and then continued upon their way . |
| 23 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 24 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 25 | Camille Chamoun 's power was ultimately founded upon his Nimr ( Tigers ) militia , commanded by his son Dany , who was himself to be a declared candidate for the presidency of Lebanon in the aborted 1988 elections . |
| 26 | It is a memory indelibly engraved upon her soul . |
| 27 | 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) . |
| 28 | Possibly Richard had summoned him to Saintes to do homage and Vulgrin had refused , not willing to accept the losses recently inflicted upon his family . |