Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 2 | The emphasis here is rather less upon the calculation of personal advantage , and rather more on the kin group as a co-operative unit , taking collective decisions which are to the advantage of all . |
| 3 | These exultations , these hymns , come so suddenly upon me like unbidden genii bearing gifts that no mortals have ever seen before . |
| 4 | Their two hands lay warmly together upon her lap . |
| 5 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 6 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 7 | It always amazed her to see that other people could live so comfortably upon such barren territory . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , speak of him , ’ said Llewelyn , looking down at the heavy ashen head that lay so still upon his arm . |
| 9 | Dunbar came picking his way between the debris and the fallen , and looked down calmly upon the son and successor of his old enemy . |
| 10 | She had sensed from the beginning that his compliments to her were of a different kind from those he bestowed so liberally upon every female in sight , but she could n't tell him that , while in her heart she liked them , she might be annoyed by his assumption that they were always acceptable . |
| 11 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 12 | Sheltering among the rocks , to gather what relief they could from the heat of a sun which beat down remorselessly upon their uncovered heads , they ate their cold lunch in silence . |
| 13 | But Mrs Moon , with those taints of actress , adulteress , divorcee branded so plainly upon her , could not be received by anyone . |
| 14 | By any account this has offered a golden opportunity to understand the origins of Christianity more fully , to appreciate the social , economic , religious and political circumstances within which a Galilean Jew might impact so strongly upon world history . |
| 15 | Emperor Frederick showed him great kindness and asked what reward he wanted for playing so well upon the bagpipes . |
| 16 | Firstly , why have teachers and students of language concentrated so exclusively upon the production of correct sentences if that is not enough to communicate ? |
| 17 | In such a situation , the features of those relationships which reflect less well upon the interviewee may not emerge easily — an important point demonstrated very effectively by Cornwell 's ( 1984 ) research on contemporary family relationships . |
| 18 | She yanked the reins and brought the whip down hard upon its bony rump . |
| 19 | He pressed his thumb down hard upon |
| 20 | The Union Chargeability Act of 1865 also removed many of the disincentives to build by altering the basis of poor law finance , but the onset of agricultural depression after 1 873 followed so hard upon its heels that attempts to reform rural housing were rendered largely ineffective . |
| 21 | She dressed soberly , changed her clothes less often , coiled her long dark hair into its usual long glossy package which lay so neatly upon her neck . |
| 22 | ‘ There is nothing in the world that lieth so heavily upon my heart ’ , he writes , ‘ as the thought of the miserable nations of the earth . |
| 23 | 1 knew how he felt , for in an operation like this nerves take over and you rest so heavily upon the skill of the dispatcher that you ask his permission even to breathe . |
| 24 | The eastern desert , rocky and mountainous , closes in aggressively upon the river with high bluffs restricting the fields to a tenuous strip . |
| 25 | VFM auditing is not new , and in many ways Britain is now only explicitly upon a path that other countries have already followed . |
| 26 | For the scheme to work , it is necessary that the trigger point or detonation temperature for collapse of the non-fullerene cluster depends rather sensitively upon cluster size . |
| 27 | The height attained by sand grains undergoing saltation depends on the velocity of the grains , and thus basically upon wind velocity , and on the nature of the surface . |
| 28 | The vitality of a partnership will depend not only upon its perceived value but on its variety , and ideally it might involve both students and staff in different activities . |
| 29 | The extent of the work that could be undertaken would depend not only upon her willingness to consider it , but also on the finance available from the elderly person herself , her family , or the local authority , who are able to make grants for this purpose in suitable cases . |
| 30 | The way you manage to cope with all the problems that life with an elderly parent may present will depend not only upon their magnitude , or the help you receive from others , but also on your attitude towards them , and your determination to live life just a day at a time , thus breaking your stress up into smaller and more manageable ‘ sections ’ . |