Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ‘ forget ’ pop is to renege fundamentally upon the ( over-determining ) intentions of punk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Obviously the death of my father impacted greatly upon my childhood years . |
| 4 | Such knowledge forms a single system in each individual person so that his actions and his accounts are performances drawing only upon one corpus of knowledge . |
| 5 | Even these can be criticized only upon the basis of other assumptions . |
| 6 | He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security . |
| 7 | This interest is undoubtedly driven by the search for plastic materials derived from sustainable carbon sources and which biodegrade naturally upon disposal . |
| 8 | It is important to realise that the allege irreducibility of " greater than " and other similar relations to qualitative " properties turns entirely upon this assumption . |
| 9 | During most of the 1950s and 1960s UK governments as a whole concentrated predominantly upon the employment objective , with the balance of payments frequently exerting a cons-traint on the achievement of this goal . |
| 10 | As Alfred Oliver begins to rise , a blunt instrument is smashed forcibly upon his head , followed by more blows incessantly raining down upon the elderly tobacconist . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the termination date occurred only upon expiry of the 12-week notice period . |
| 12 | Of the pelagic animals , some fish browse directly upon the plankton , as do the baleen whales , which concentrate upon the euphausiids and copepods . |
| 13 | This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people . |
| 14 | As a result of this increased competition from sales promotional agencies , advertising agencies have tended , since the late 1970s , to concentrate more upon sales promotional activities , and have begun to offer sales promotion alongside advertising as an integrated promotional package . |
| 15 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 16 | The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage . |
| 17 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 18 | Whereas the SDPJ and the Japan Communist Party ( JCP ) attempted to turn the upper house election into a referendum , the LDP concentrated more upon economic issues . |
| 19 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 20 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 21 | There was another side to loving myself , that for me seemed to bear directly upon my cancer . |
| 22 | It may be that several disciplines can be brought to bear fruitfully upon an area ( Europe ) , period ( Enlightenment ) , problem ( traffic congestion ) , or theme ( Pastoral ) while still maintaining their distinct identity ; in which case the term ‘ multidisciplinary ’ ( OECD 1972 ) becomes appropriate . |
| 23 | For too long many Ulsterfolk have looked favourably upon Israel and its inhabitants , mainly due to Biblical misrepresentation and distortion . |
| 24 | A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today . |
| 25 | Green 's , No. 2 Brazenose Street , who has now upon sale a valuable collection of Prints etc . |
| 26 | These lovely girls with long fair hair were actually blood-sucking VAMPIRES who preyed exclusively upon young men as they lay sleeping . |
| 27 | The firebird dined exclusively upon golden apples and its powerful wings created strong winds when the bird took to the air ; as he flew , all the other birds would fall silent in awe at his grace . |
| 28 | and that all Shares so purchased in pursuance of this authority shall be cancelled immediately upon completion of the purchase and the amount of the Company 's issued share capital ( but not authorised share capital ) shall be reduced by the nominal amount of the Shares so purchased ’ . |
| 29 | Jung can appear to link quite well with sociology ; indeed , he drew indirectly upon the work of the Durkheim School in developing his understanding of collective symbols . |
| 30 | Omnivores comprise by far the largest group from cosmopolitan feeders such as the opportunistic wrasses which have broad tastes to specialised feeders such as angelfish which browse benthically upon sponges and algae . |