Example sentences of "[adv] upon [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus any analysis of modern racism should not be focused entirely upon majority groups ' images and stereotypes of minority groups . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | This interest is undoubtedly driven by the search for plastic materials derived from sustainable carbon sources and which biodegrade naturally upon disposal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | It is only upon reflection that the latent expressive paradoxes became obvious , such is the potency of Glebov 's compositional sleight of hand . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the termination date occurred only upon expiry of the 12-week notice period . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The speed and efficiency with which it had been delivered was impressive , and suggested strongly that Kirov had also worked largely upon intuition . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Later she came to depend more upon excision , upon the evocation of what she called ‘ the thing not said ’ ; castigating Balzac for delivering an excess of information , she praised the hint , the pared-down suggestion . |
| 24 | Even their awareness of second-rank leaders came to depend more upon television viewing though , in this case , no less upon their interest in politics and their access to the quality press . |
| 25 | It is stressed that the main concern should be the information needs of the personnel function , rather than concentrating too early upon computer solutions . |
| 26 | But if we are to preserve the creatures that rely directly upon water as their medium , technique and science alone are not enough . |
| 27 | In developing countries , where family planning is rarely practised prior to birth of the first child , the timing of first union bears directly upon fertility patterns , including the age at which the woman gives birth to her first child , often also the nature and pattern of subsequent reproductive events , as well as completed family size . |
| 28 | This sprang to mind yesterday upon hearing of Vermont Harmony . |
| 29 | Once upon time , a Royal Banker of elevated rank noticed as he drove to the City on the morning of the Queen Mum 's birthday that the flags were not flying on the most relevant of our buildings . |
| 30 | They rely both upon colour and a variety of simple visual devices . |