Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the Westinghouse case , one group of witnesses successfully claimed a privilege existing in English law , while another group of witnesses successfully relied upon a privilege existing in the law of the United States , the requesting State . |
| 2 | It means a nervous dependence upon nature , a relationship with a step-parent who can never be entirely relied upon . |
| 3 | George , it has been much commented upon , likes a key phrase , one that sticks and simmers in the jury 's mind . |
| 4 | Much depended upon the quality of the secretaries . |
| 5 | Sir Maurice Powicke rightly emphasized the domestic character of high politics , when so much depended upon dynastic marriages , connections and alliances within an enlarged family circle . |
| 6 | As always , much depended upon the ability and enthusiasm of the Master , and in this respect the School seems generally to have been fortunate . |
| 7 | As so often when we contemplate English village society much depended upon particular local conditions . |
| 8 | Of course much depended upon the temper imparted by the smith . |
| 9 | But then , suddenly , at the very end of his report , Abercrombie writes something quite extraordinary , as if a bright and penetrating light has suddenly fallen upon the land of dreams . |
| 10 | It remains to mention a point much relied upon by the applicant , namely that if section 2 stands unqualified , the investigation will continue in being , and hence the inquisitorial powers of the Director will continue to be exercisable , until the prosecution is either dropped , or concluded by a verdict . |
| 11 | In the past it had been very much relied upon to provide a representative and authoritative comment upon the affairs of the Bar . |
| 12 | All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing . |
| 13 | ‘ The constable in certain districts ’ , The Pall Mall Gazette ( 19 February 1901 ) observed , ‘ is apparently looked upon as the common enemy whom it is right to kick and beat whenever that can be done with safety . ’ |
| 14 | I need more certain light in which to catch and express the sense of exultation which has suddenly come upon me . |
| 15 | ‘ We are basically looked upon as the end of things , ’ says Richard Faulkner . |
| 16 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 17 | Looked at in this light , and with conservation so constantly impressed upon us , I really ca n't see that the idea could be so shocking . |
| 18 | Her pupils were not entirely decided upon by Miss Hatherby . |
| 19 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 20 | ‘ Much prayed upon , ’ George had joked . |
| 21 | So the Regent had apparently decided upon Edward 's second alternative — challenge in the field . |
| 22 | These should be mutually decided upon . |
| 23 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 24 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 25 | All big changes in her young life had been suddenly thrust upon her . |
| 26 | Here was a circumstance where a great number of foreigners , who would be unable to speak the local language , whose customs would be regarded with suspicion , and whose mariner of worship differed significantly , were suddenly thrust upon a remote community . |
| 27 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 28 | This imposition of routine health screening for the older age groups in the new GP contract is obviously premised upon the assumption that routine screening is beneficial to the health of the population . |
| 29 | What is less agreed upon is whether the reward should be given for routine adequacy or for extra special effort . |
| 30 | Another emotion which is somewhat elaborated upon by the Chewong is that expressed by the word chan which I translate as anger or angry . |