Example sentences of "[conj] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bills of lading issued by NVOCC 's are subsidiary bills , in the sense that the right to claim the goods described in the NVOCC bill is predicated upon the NVOCC 's rights under a ‘ master ’ or underlying bill of lading issued by the shipping company to the NVOCC , or upon a contract of affreightment between the same two parties . |
| 2 | Conformity to rules relies primarily upon compliance , upon a willingness to work within a regulated framework which Etzioni has suggested rests either upon acceptance of a ‘ utilitarian ’ financial bargain or upon a ‘ normative ’ commitment . |
| 3 | The various regional associations which were formed at various times in Eastern and Western Europe , in Africa , in the Middle East or in Latin America , rested either upon the predominance of one nation state over others in the region , or upon a limited agreement about a framework within which national economic interests could be more effectively pursued ; and they all showed themselves largely incapable of controlling the vigorous expression of such interests in periods of crisis . |
| 4 | The Divisional Court held that they had power to review the visitor 's decision and that upon a proper construction of the university statutes the university had no power to dismiss Mr. Page . |
| 5 | Mental incapacity It is usual to provide that upon a partner becoming a patient under the Mental Health Act 1983 his colleagues should have the option of terminating their partnership with him . |
| 6 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |
| 7 | Of course some boys may be asked to perform some or all of these tasks , but I think that ( for historical rather than biological reasons ) the task of substitute-mothering is more likely to devolve upon a girl than upon a boy who is in a similar position within the family . |
| 8 | Within the new universities one response to this perception of student " inadequacy " was to engage in a certain amount of disciplinary " cross-fertilization " ; and to depend more upon the " civilizing power " of a few " great books " considered to have some contemporary " relevance " than upon a " professional " approach to English studies . |
| 9 | His normally responsive facial expression was firmly controlled ; an Oxford contemporary remembered that for all its serenity an observer seemed ‘ to be gazing upon some great portrait of a face rather than upon a face ’ . |
| 10 | It has been generalist rather than specific , its programme being based upon each child 's interests and abilities ( rather than upon an external authority 's projection of what they ought to be ) . |
| 11 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 12 | This is why , by mistake one evening , I stumbled into the wrong accommodation and upon a honeymoon couple . |
| 13 | They drew upon the émigré press and upon a steady flow of western social , political , economic and scientific works . |
| 14 | Mr. Philipson , relying on the final paragraph of the notice itself quoted above , and upon a minute textual analysis of Mr. Barnes ' affidavit , submitted that it was plain that the real purpose of the Bank of England was to obtain the documents for the Federal Reserve Board , and not for the purpose of exercising its own supervisory function . |
| 15 | He opened his eyes upon discreet candle-light , upon a small room hung with tapestries and green fir-boughs that smelled of spice and resin and open air ; and upon a girl 's face bent solicitously over him . |
| 16 | ‘ Humanists depend to a very considerable extent upon libraries , both in their own and other institutions , and upon a network of museums , galleries , and archives ’ ( Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship 1993 : 30 ) . |
| 17 | It is evident that success in war , which was crucial in building large states , depended both upon the availability of economic resources , and upon an effective political mobilization and use of those resources . |
| 18 | And there came with him thirty and six Kings , and one Moorish Queen , who was a negress , and she brought with her two hundred horsewomen , all negresses like herself , all having their hair shorn save a tuft on the top , and this was in token that they came as if upon a pilgrimage , and to obtain the remission of their sins ; and they were all armed in coats of mail and with Turkish bows . |
| 19 | The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings . |
| 20 | Also many teachers of English succumbed to a kind of vitalism , a muddled belief that children 's acquisition of language skills depends not on craft and knowledge , but upon a living , spontaneous response to their reading and to their own experiences . |
| 21 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 22 | She is a mature woman with piled hair of an improbable yellow hue , and a voluptuous bosom on which her reading glasses , retained round her neck by a chain , rest as upon a shelf . |
| 23 | In addition to their fears that ratification would fail and perhaps also their own doubts about the enterprise , French governments argued that ratification must await agreement by their proposed partners on suggested modifications to the treaty , as well as upon a clarification of the British attitude . |
| 24 | For sales he relied upon dealers in Paris like Paul Durand-Ruel , Georges Petit , and Goupil Boussod-Valadon , as well as upon a small group of patrons such as Félix François Depeaux of Rouen , but financial success eluded him . |
| 25 | And the filth , far from reacting upon me as upon a famous London impresario , added fuel to the fire of my enjoyment ! |