Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] upon the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 2 | Some are called Wine Shops , others Drink Stores apparently depending upon the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | Of course much depended upon the temper imparted by the smith . |
| 4 | As always , much depended upon the ability and enthusiasm of the Master , and in this respect the School seems generally to have been fortunate . |
| 5 | Much depended upon the quality of the secretaries . |
| 6 | It is tempting to the Commission to recommend the establishment of a church music staff college , perhaps building upon the foundation of the Royal School of Church Music . |
| 7 | But then , suddenly , at the very end of his report , Abercrombie writes something quite extraordinary , as if a bright and penetrating light has suddenly fallen upon the land of dreams . |
| 8 | All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing . |
| 9 | and suddenly came upon the river , |
| 10 | Much depends upon the type of work and the sort of people employed . |
| 11 | Much depends upon the type of damage and the quality of the repairs so that , for example , where an engine is damaged , a car may be restored to newness through a new engine being installed . |
| 12 | Much depends upon the statute creating the offence . |
| 13 | Much depends upon the efficiency of a library 's housekeeping , particularly the accuracy of shelving . |
| 14 | Much depends upon the nature of the industry and product . |
| 15 | Much depends upon the nature of the interdependencies , how critical they are to the success of SBUs and , in turn , how important those SBUs are to total group success . |
| 16 | Much depends upon the strength and cohesion of the state and of the dominant class or elites in the defeated nations , and upon the policies of the victorious powers . |
| 17 | This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers . |
| 18 | The utility of such reports obviously depends upon the calibre and acumen of the observer , the typicality of the materials studied and the sample interviewed . |
| 19 | Nor does their intelligibility ( irrespective of their truth or falsehood ) necessarily depend upon the intelligibility of some other statements that might be characterised as " irreducibly relational " — in the pluralistic sense of " relational " . |
| 20 | This imposition of routine health screening for the older age groups in the new GP contract is obviously premised upon the assumption that routine screening is beneficial to the health of the population . |
| 21 | It may be that they will enjoy an opportunity to talk about their models afterwards , perhaps how they were made , or comparisons of materials used , but this will obviously depend upon the child . |
| 22 | This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them . |
| 23 | The militants of national liberation , single-mindedly focused upon the conquest of State power , see their end as opening the doors to freedom . |
| 24 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 25 | Jenny and Michael Aldous , who garden here , have obviously hit upon the secret of colour throughout the summer . |
| 26 | The strength of Wedgwood 's marketing operations today is very much centred upon the breadth of its wares — in style , type and price range — varying from the luxurious in fine bone china tableware to the inexpensive in earthenware and oven-to-tableware . |
| 27 | Natural hazard research necessarily focuses upon the interrelation of geophysical events and human activity and as such is an important feature of recent research and one that some such as Parker and Harding ( 1979 ) have proclaimed to be of central and traditional concern to geographers and their view is included in Table 6.2 . |
| 28 | It is certainly easy for those who did not belong to Lewis 's group of friends , and who merely come upon the record of it in after days , to see its faults . |
| 29 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 30 | The cash value to be placed upon a first appointment as writer or cadet is uncertain , for it obviously depended upon the number of years in which a candidate would draw the salary , but contemporaries no doubt took the possibility of an early death from disease into account when they spoke of a value of £1,000 . |