Example sentences of "[adv] upon [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 2 | Sherman ( 1981 ) has developed a useful alternative theory which he called the ‘ Social Breakdown Syndrome ’ , which involves a more comprehensive explanation than those which focus entirely upon individual pathology . |
| 3 | The National Health Service relies almost entirely upon Central Government assessment of its budgetary needs . |
| 4 | Punk rock was over by then anyway ( real punks claimed it finished in 1976 , but who were the ‘ real ’ punks ? ) and in its place there was an orgy of cross-cultural pollination , based entirely upon received ideas . |
| 5 | Men like Hickes and Wriothesley , confidential men of business for the great , relied almost entirely upon such douceurs . |
| 6 | At the same time , a system which relies entirely upon departmental selection is bound to result in lack of balance . |
| 7 | Many highly successful modern animals , from earthworms to octopuses , rely almost entirely upon hydrostatic pressure to create their body forms . |
| 8 | It is important to realise that the allege irreducibility of " greater than " and other similar relations to qualitative " properties turns entirely upon this assumption . |
| 9 | Laura looked approvingly upon all the little ‘ sold ’ stickers dotting the finest furniture of the room . |
| 10 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 11 | In that case it is legitimate to require some special process of constitutional amendment say that the legislature may amend the Constitution only by a two-thirds majority or after a general election or perhaps upon three months ' notice . |
| 12 | The criminal law may depend less upon one monolithic principle and more upon a synthesis of conflicting principles . |
| 13 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 14 | Just as the colonial nations developed sugar from beet when they were threatened with disruptions to their cane sugar supply in the 19th century , so modern chemistry is developing sweeteners in the laboratory that rely even less upon raw materials . |
| 15 | Interest is paid annually upon each anniversary of the first deposit to your TESSA and calculated on a daily basis on cleared balances ( including any interest credited but not withdrawn ) . |
| 16 | Although there are parallels between searching and indexing , it is important to remember that successful information retrieval does not depend only upon effective exploitation of indexing . |
| 17 | It is not necessary to draw only upon Eastern Europe for examples of a system of education which is centralised at almost every level below that of research work for higher degrees . |
| 18 | Thus although possibly it may amount to a transfer of value it could not amount to a chargeable transfer and it is only upon chargeable transfers that inheritance tax is payable . |
| 19 | Despite the constant , untiring efforts of the devoted few , by the late twentieth century it has become increasingly clear that , in all probability , neither the Protestant nor Catholic Churches would have continued to exist if existence depended only upon such efforts . |
| 20 | Such knowledge forms a single system in each individual person so that his actions and his accounts are performances drawing only upon one corpus of knowledge . |
| 21 | Note that DH III and DH IV are seen in the BALB/c mouse but only upon longer exposures . |
| 22 | Thus , in a situation where the contemporary social dynamic was seen as disordered and destructive , the new critical emphasis offered to intellectuals a mirror of their own estrangement and distance from everyday life , while holding up the ideal of a community of feeling and understanding based only upon literary criticism . |
| 23 | Interleukin-2 is normally present in minute quantities in the microscopic local environment of lymphocytes and acts only upon those few cells . |
| 24 | There are some , as we shall see , and although language teaching and mainstream linguistics has traditionally concentrated only upon those formal features which operate within sentences , discourse analysis may suggest ways of directing teachers ' and students ' attention to formal features which operate across sentences as well . |
| 25 | Even when the military balance is in her favour , the Soviet Union will maintain a healthy regard for the political stakes in East-West rivalry , as well as its social undercurrents ; she will be aware that the ability to act effectively depends not only upon military trumps , but the psychological and moral intangibles of world politics . |
| 26 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 27 | It was the sort of kiss you saw portrayed on the cinema screen , between two madly attracted people in mortal danger who fell dementedly upon each other as if there was no tomorrow … |
| 28 | Behind her back , her hands intertwined and twisted feverishly upon each other . |
| 29 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 30 | Consequentially upon that contention , the appellant raised two further matters of complaint . |