Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] upon the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis here is rather less upon the calculation of personal advantage , and rather more on the kin group as a co-operative unit , taking collective decisions which are to the advantage of all . |
| 2 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 3 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 4 | Firstly , why have teachers and students of language concentrated so exclusively upon the production of correct sentences if that is not enough to communicate ? |
| 5 | In such a situation , the features of those relationships which reflect less well upon the interviewee may not emerge easily — an important point demonstrated very effectively by Cornwell 's ( 1984 ) research on contemporary family relationships . |
| 6 | 1 knew how he felt , for in an operation like this nerves take over and you rest so heavily upon the skill of the dispatcher that you ask his permission even to breathe . |
| 7 | In order to overcome these constraints , de Gaulle had to rely chiefly upon himself — upon the powers which he held as president , but more importantly upon the prestige of his name and the authority of his voice . |
| 8 | It is a telling commentary upon parliament but even more so upon the church 's limited political potency : at that stage , the clergy needed the support not just of the commons but of the peers as well in order to defend effectively their privileges and franchises ; repeal was effected in the council and chiefly through the agency of the lords ; when the prelates contemplated a riposte in convocation they were instantly quelled by writs of prohibition . |
| 9 | Within seven years all his sons were dead too , and the West Saxon dynasty , in the person of Edward the Confessor , sat once more upon the throne of England . |
| 10 | Others say that Tethlis grasped the Sword of Khaine and that it writhed in his grip and started to come free , and that the king was cut down by his own bodyguard who feared the consequences of Aenarion 's fatal weapon being unleashed once more upon the world . |
| 11 | He lay down once more upon the bench and , his lungs filled with a crush of flower essence , began to speak . |
| 12 | But the home looked directly out upon the life of the High Street and seemed clean and well-run , although its appointments and furnishings by no means matched the magnificent brass door-knocker or the gracious proportions of the house itself . |
| 13 | Her feet seem to me to be set more firmly upon the earth than theirs … . |
| 14 | The true life , the true bright sunshine , lay far out upon the plain . |
| 15 | In so far as Bukharin was discussing the relationship between society and nature he focused his attention almost wholly upon the material aspects of the exchanges . |
| 16 | The debate among trade union tutors has concentrated almost entirely upon the content and organisation of the TUC day-release scheme . |
| 17 | Senior staff depend very heavily therefore upon the man in the field , as one of them acknowledged : |
| 18 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 19 | To view the constitution of the United Kingdom as concerning only Parliament , the Crown and the courts is , however , to take altogether too narrow a view and to focus too closely upon the centre . |