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 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 . |
| 6 | It always amazed her to see that other people could live so comfortably upon such barren territory . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , speak of him , ’ said Llewelyn , looking down at the heavy ashen head that lay so still upon his arm . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But Mrs Moon , with those taints of actress , adulteress , divorcee branded so plainly upon her , could not be received by anyone . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Emperor Frederick showed him great kindness and asked what reward he wanted for playing so well upon the bagpipes . |
| 13 | Firstly , why have teachers and students of language concentrated so exclusively upon the production of correct sentences if that is not enough to communicate ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | VFM auditing is not new , and in many ways Britain is now only explicitly upon a path that other countries have already followed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it . |
| 23 | And I believed that to others I who looked thus strangely upon them , I also was strange . |
| 24 | In order to overcome these constraints , de Gaulle had to rely chiefly upon himself — upon the powers which he held as president , but more importantly upon the prestige of his name and the authority of his voice . |
| 25 | However , although they were worth less on the open market than if they had been in ‘ good ’ condition , they were still fit for the purpose for which the buyer wanted them ( making into cattle food ) and were still so upon arrival . |
| 26 | It is a telling commentary upon parliament but even more so upon the church 's limited political potency : at that stage , the clergy needed the support not just of the commons but of the peers as well in order to defend effectively their privileges and franchises ; repeal was effected in the council and chiefly through the agency of the lords ; when the prelates contemplated a riposte in convocation they were instantly quelled by writs of prohibition . |
| 27 | In the learned hierarchy the term — literally " one who is assiduous , constant in attendance ’ was used for a candidate for office at any stage in his career , for the muderris or kadi awaiting his next post as well as for the beginner , the term in Ottoman usage perhaps reflecting the fact that the candidates were in constant attendance theoretically upon the sultan but in fact more usually upon the kazaskers , in whose hands lay the responsibility for nominating men for most posts until near the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | Others say that Tethlis grasped the Sword of Khaine and that it writhed in his grip and started to come free , and that the king was cut down by his own bodyguard who feared the consequences of Aenarion 's fatal weapon being unleashed once more upon the world . |
| 29 | And then the camera focused once more upon Li Yuan . |
| 30 | He lay down once more upon the bench and , his lungs filled with a crush of flower essence , began to speak . |