Example sentences of "[adv] upon [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researched and compiled by Alan Webb and published by him care of the Mosquito Aircraft Museum , At First Sight is a magnificent and original unit history , based entirely upon accounts written by former 627 Squadron members . |
| 2 | Thus any analysis of modern racism should not be focused entirely upon majority groups ' images and stereotypes of minority groups . |
| 3 | This work tackles two other areas which are relevant to natural language indexing : Chapter 11 discusses the generation of printed indexes based upon the words in titles ; it also reviews some of the basic strengths and limitations of natural language indexing in the context of printed indexes based entirely upon titles alone ; Chapter 17 considers post-coordinate indexing and online searching of databases . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | First , the research relating to employment focused almost entirely upon men ( with the exception of Le Gros Clark 1962 ) , whilst that into medical and social conditions studied mainly women . |
| 6 | one 's critical judgement is in despair in the face of the uniformity of these interpretations based entirely upon beauty of sound , whatever the repertory , the composer or the genre of piece might be . |
| 7 | Before the coming of the railway the works relied almost entirely upon barge transport for the supply of coke and river mud and for the transport of the finished products . |
| 8 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 9 | The ladies now smiled gently upon Ella as she retrieved their glasses . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are two contradictory images ; an idealised one is of a benign , wise , peaceful old person , available to listen and perhaps to advise and to draw valuably upon life experience . |
| 12 | For copying to be proved , the test is as follows : a ) there must be a sufficient objective similarity between the two works ( an objective issue — that is , would the " reasonable man " consider the two works sufficiently similar ) , and b ) there must also be some causal connection between the two works ( a subjective question but not to be presumed as a matter of law merely upon proof of access ) . |
| 13 | This interest is undoubtedly driven by the search for plastic materials derived from sustainable carbon sources and which biodegrade naturally upon disposal . |
| 14 | But in fact it was too late , if indeed it had ever been possible after 1950 , for Britain to assert its will on the Six , especially upon France . |
| 15 | Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20 , the Insolvent Debtors Court and , after its abolition , the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces , had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud . |
| 16 | ‘ Stallions , bulls , rams , rats , guinea pigs , porcupines , cats , dogs , Apes , and males of other species may come to full erection almost instantaneously upon contact with a sexual object , ’ reported Kinsey . |
| 17 | It is only upon reflection that the latent expressive paradoxes became obvious , such is the potency of Glebov 's compositional sleight of hand . |
| 18 | It is an impossibly restricted view , therefore , to imagine a universal approach to landform study being based only upon consideration of historical development … the physical and the resulting psychological , inability of geographers to handle successfully the simultaneous operation of a number of causes contributing to a given effect has been one of the greatest impediments to the advancement of their discipline . |
| 19 | The contributors regularly asserted that a university was not a democracy , and that academic study should be reserved for an elite by concentrating attention and opportunity only upon students endowed with " unusual gifts " . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is conceded by the representatives of the parties to this appeal that an order made in the terms made by the justices was not open to them in as much as it did not impinge upon the parental responsibility of the parent concerned and impinged only upon contact between the parents themselves . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the termination date occurred only upon expiry of the 12-week notice period . |
| 22 | On another occasion , he commented that the ruler who was dependent only upon executive power without finding ‘ the way to the people ’ was destined to failure . |
| 23 | They are a frontal assault of the Devil not only upon believers but on human beings everywhere . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If the symptoms should start to show following an unavoidable change , say a power failure or similar , the fish will normally be able to rid itself swiftly upon return to normal conditions . |
| 26 | Ralph is now all alone against Jack 's hunters , who tower above upon Castle Rock . |
| 27 | I do emphasise this definition , which relies upon the influence upon the value of money being direct , being exercised upon particular prices ; for of course all economic policies have an effect upon the value of money and thus upon prices , including incomes . |
| 28 | September is just upon us. but in Derry they 're already working hard towards this year 's Octoberfest . |
| 29 | There is the possibility of some influence from craftsmen working to the south , around Water Newton , who specialised in the manufacture of geometric designs , but their work was based largely upon lozenge configurations and can not have been a major source of inspiration . |
| 30 | TYPOGRAPHY was once an arcane discipline , with its own system of measurement , its own language and a technology that depended largely upon pencil and paper . |