Example sentences of "upon [Wh adv] it is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Lawyers may rightly point out that this does not constitute , of itself , an effective restriction on any statutory power or discretion , but it is an important statement of policy , and one which the statutory and voluntary guardians of amenity will seize upon whenever it is infringed .
2 Although a vineyard thus cultivated always appears to contain vines of no more than three years of age , they do of course all issue from their parent plants , thus a ‘ pre-phylloxera ’ vine nowadays will be either three or eighty years old , depending upon how it is viewed .
3 A PR executive thus needs to be placed so that he or she is aware of all issues , policies , attitudes and opinions that exist in the organisation that have a bearing upon how it is perceived by the organisation 's publics .
4 What the experienced communicator recognises is that the effectiveness of what is said is as dependent upon how it is said and perceptions and impressions others have of the person presenting the argument as it is upon the quality of argument itself .
5 The actual impact of any policy upon the public will depend upon how it is interpreted and put into practice by government officials .
6 Here the new voice of the nineteenth century can be clearly heard , with its insistence upon self-awareness , self-expression and self-discovery — an insistence whose dangers we have already remarked upon where it is taken to extremes , so that the human self entirely fills the horizon .
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