Example sentences of "[adv] upon [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fate would depend entirely upon her mood , which he knew from experience could shift and change in the winking of an eye . |
| 2 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 3 | They are among the safest of all sections of the community using the roads , simply because they rely entirely upon their sight at all times and under all circumstances . " |
| 4 | Moreover , since the end of the sixteenth century incoming cottagers had no common rights and were dependent entirely upon their labour for their living . |
| 5 | The stiffness of the monoblock boot depends entirely upon it , and injection-moulded plastic midsoles of a thickness suited to the size of boot are now commonplace . |
| 6 | In this , all assumptions about external reality are suspended ( ‘ bracketed ’ ) and the theorist focuses entirely upon his field of immediate experience . |
| 7 | Obviously the death of my father impacted greatly upon my childhood years . |
| 8 | Now how we answer these questions will depend crucially upon what we think animals to be . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |
| 11 | Presently they were ready at the place of meeting , and the gate was opened which was nearest the gardens where the Moors had entered , without order ; and they fell fiercely upon them , smiting and slaying . |
| 12 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 13 | The way you manage to cope with all the problems that life with an elderly parent may present will depend not only upon their magnitude , or the help you receive from others , but also on your attitude towards them , and your determination to live life just a day at a time , thus breaking your stress up into smaller and more manageable ‘ sections ’ . |
| 14 | Parents , often isolated and often with a view of children based only upon their experience of their own offspring , began to be able to set their child and his/her behaviour within a much broader context . |
| 15 | The net indebtedness of bank A to bank B can be settled at the Bank of England by a transfer of bankers ' deposits from the account of A to the account of B. Notice that inter-bank settlement of this kind has no effect upon the total of bankers ' deposits , only upon their ownership . |
| 16 | The extent of the work that could be undertaken would depend not only upon her willingness to consider it , but also on the finance available from the elderly person herself , her family , or the local authority , who are able to make grants for this purpose in suitable cases . |
| 17 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 18 | The vitality of a partnership will depend not only upon its perceived value but on its variety , and ideally it might involve both students and staff in different activities . |
| 19 | He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security . |
| 20 | Their two hands lay warmly together upon her lap . |
| 21 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 22 | He had a scarlet bedgown on , a kind of soft biretta of dark red wool on his head , from which his long white hair escaped on to the pillow ; his grey beard , grown very long upon his breast … |
| 23 | It did not take long upon his return from Hong Kong for Lugard 's sensitive nose to detect an atmosphere of insubordination in Northern Nigeria . |
| 24 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 25 | These exultations , these hymns , come so suddenly upon me like unbidden genii bearing gifts that no mortals have ever seen before . |
| 26 | The burden is now suddenly upon them . |
| 27 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 28 | At a time of ‘ awful crisis , when constitutions of kingdoms are on the point of dissolution the stain of the blood of Africa is no longer upon us ’ thus removing ‘ a mill-stone about our necks , ready to sink us to perdition ’ . |
| 29 | Therefore the nostalgic gloss my grandmother cast backwards upon her own childhood and on her favourite brother , can not be separated from their histories , and our easy condemnations of slaughter miss the complicated realities . |
| 30 | The road dipped steeply here then curved back wickedly upon itself . |