Example sentences of "upon a conception " in BNC.

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1 His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide .
2 Thus , the new version of English ( often now explicitly distinguished from " English Language arid Literature " ) offered a sense of ontological security as well as a pedagogic programme , based particularly upon a conception of self generating and autonomous value .
3 It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects .
4 Fisher ( 1990 ) has pointed out that the community care reforms are based upon a conception of case management which takes little account of those people for whom services have , mandatorily , to be provided , but who refuse to accept them .
5 Many of the classifications that were proposed in the nineteenth century rested upon a conception of social evolution , which itself was understood in various ways and was frequently connected with the idea of progress .
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