Example sentences of "heavily upon [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this might well be thought to overstate the case , and we must not ourselves draw too heavily upon selected examples . |
| 2 | To ensure the best and most appropriate access to that information , historians might be advised once again to pursue collaborative initiatives with scholars in other disciplines who will also rely as heavily upon such materials . |
| 3 | Others rely more heavily upon aerobic respiration ; they are dark in colour , because they are rich in oxygen-carrying myoglobin and mitochondria . |
| 4 | This form of ‘ social Darwinism ’ emphasized the destructive capacity of struggle , but drew even more heavily upon pre-Darwinian models of historical development , which had now become fashionable in the age of imperialism . |
| 5 | Dr Spriegel : ‘ Much biological pest control is carried out in greenhouses ; open field growing still relies heavily upon chemical pesticides . |
| 6 | Clinical indices depend heavily upon subjective features such as abdominal pain and well being . |
| 7 | As the last title implies , anthropologists of this persuasion concentrate upon categories of thought and native philosophies or theories of knowledge ( which they often call ‘ conceptual systems ’ ) , drawing heavily upon linguistic theory and methods in an effort to achieve increasingly rigorous and exhaustive inventories of alien concepts and beliefs . |
| 8 | External debt continues to weigh heavily upon these countries . |
| 9 | If you have played through all the examples , you 'll have noticed how often 3rd and 6th intervals have come up ; this is because the intervallic structure of most chord types rely heavily upon these two intervals . |
| 10 | I believe that the government do recognise that there are six million unpaid carers , er I believe that the government depend very heavily upon these six million people , and I do not believe that the government intend to reward them . |
| 11 | The burden of this increasing sense of isolation has fallen particularly heavily upon those members of the rural population who lack the means of personal mobility to maintain a more dispersed network of social contacts . |
| 12 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 13 | Some , light in colour , rely heavily upon anaerobic respiration . |
| 14 | Chittagong Railway Station and most tracks north of Bairab Bazar Junction rely heavily upon this renowned company for their structural steel , and there are 28 DWEC spans across rivers and streams in the Chittagong area . |
| 15 | And it seems to me that in his written work likewise , he tends to rely rather heavily upon this remarkable dexterity . |
| 16 | And when the London Film Company was formed in 1913 by Dr Ralph Tennyson Jupp , as an offshoot of his Provincial Cinematograph Theatres exhibition company , he relied heavily upon American producers and directors . |
| 17 | Silence is also part of the Japanese communication procedure and they tend to rely heavily upon non-verbal communication . |
| 18 | The regulatory enforcement agent in routine cases adopts a compliance strategy which follows a serial pattern , a loosely structured but none the less organized process relying heavily upon negotiated conformity , with a gradual increase in pressure being applied to the unco-operative . |
| 19 | History relies heavily upon disciplined enquiry , systematic analysis and evaluation , argument , logical rigour and a search for the truth ; vii ) to introduce pupils to the distinctive methodology of historians . |