Example sentences of "[coord] not upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phenomenon depends upon an exchange of benefits and not upon the fact that , as in Hamilton 's theory , the gene in question benefits its duplicate in another organism . |
| 2 | When we try to look into ourselves we always seem to come upon some particular thought or feeling , and not upon the ‘ I ’ which has the thought or feeling . |
| 3 | All of this makes sense in relation to the historical context of England in particular where , on MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) evidence , social and economic structures have been based upon a strong sense of individualism , and not upon traditional ties of kinship , for at least 600 years . |
| 4 | In making the distinction the writer was upholding the Enlightenment philosophy that conclusions should be based upon rationality and not upon psychological dispositions . |
| 5 | ‘ If a writer could … base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention ’ , said Virginia Woolf , in her celebrated essay , ‘ Modern fiction ’ , ‘ there would be no plot , no comedy , no tragedy , no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style … ’ . |
| 6 | 52 shows that , in circumstances similar to those of the Wilts United Dairies case , recovery could be , and indeed there was , founded upon compulsion and not upon the simple fact that the money was paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand : see [ 1925 ] 1 K.B . |
| 7 | The stone-deaf person relies entirely upon sight throughout every phase of life , and not upon hearing , and , therefore , this sense of sight is developed to an extraordinary degree of efficiency from sheer necessity . |
| 8 | This emphasis on control , despite all the evidence that this is precisely what is being progressively lost , focusses the sufferer 's mind all the time on self and not upon others . |
| 9 | The Acts of Parliament which carried out the privatisations and established the powers of the regulatory agencies lay the various duties upon the Directors of the various industries and not upon the regulatory agencies as corporate bodies . |
| 10 | That is , in the UK the requirement to register an agreement is based upon the precise legal form of an agreement and not upon its effects on competition . |
| 11 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 12 | Although Wren 's celebrated dome was not , in fact molested , the high-rise guidelines focused solely upon picturesque views and not upon symbolism ; with the result that St Paul 's is no longer the crowning achievement of the city , but dwarfed to seeming like a pimple upon a buttock . |