Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] upon a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we seeking to create a federal Europe or a new free trade area or a Europe that is neither federal nor based upon a free trade area ? |
| 2 | The old-age pension was non-contributory and based upon a simple test of means . |
| 3 | During the 1520s , this theological orthodoxy came under challenge throughout Europe from the new ideas of the continental reformers , Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli , both of whom claimed that the truth of their new theology was evident from scripture and based upon a biblical authority which took precedence over tradition and papal decree . |
| 4 | There is good experimental evidence for the applicability of the BKZ Equation ( 3.19 ) and it is also similar in form to a more recent constitutive equation derived by Doi and Edwards and based upon a primitive chain model . |
| 5 | The sun blazed in and lit upon a large , broad-shouldered , shaven-headed man . |
| 6 | He was looking acutely uncomfortable already , and entered upon a feeble protest . |
| 7 | It is impersonal , and its rules are founded and followed upon a rational legal mode of legitimation . |
| 8 | Much later , the Europeans brought cats to Australia ( which probably jumped ship in the seventeenth century ) , and then foxes and rabbits ( for sport ) in the nineteenth century — and these have out-competed and preyed upon a whole host of marsupials . |