Example sentences of "[adv] upon their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | Moreover , since the end of the sixteenth century incoming cottagers had no common rights and were dependent entirely upon their labour for their living . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands , for their legs could not bear them . |
| 8 | The nature of the soil depends upon the climate ( which breaks down the rocks ) , upon the kinds of rocks involved ( hard , soft , limy , granitic ) and partly upon their age . |
| 9 | The 1275 lay subsidy of a fifteenth fell also upon their temporalities . |
| 10 | There is one important difference : the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can embark boldly upon their way forward , with electoral considerations banished for a long time to come . |
| 11 | Sheltering among the rocks , to gather what relief they could from the heat of a sun which beat down remorselessly upon their uncovered heads , they ate their cold lunch in silence . |
| 12 | They were a pragmatic , brave , distrustful people who learned that responsibility for their continued existence lay exclusively in their own hands , that their ultimate fate depended solely upon their own determination and resources . |
| 13 | They are seen to have an existence apart from any given system in which they are involved , their reality does not depend solely upon their involvement in the system under examination ( Gouldner , 1970 , pp. 215–16 ) . |
| 14 | Large logging operations for the export of timber , or to supply local plywood pulp and construction industries , frequently do not bear the costs of ensuring sustainable yields and often ‘ mine ’ the natural biotic resources of areas and then upon their exhaustion , move on ( see Ch. 8 ) . |
| 15 | Disturbed , Isa proposed Wilson and Pilade should come with her up to Bellosguardo for the afternoon and , since no protest was made , she hustled the two of them into her waiting carriage and whisked them off at once , leaving Maria with instructions to be there upon their return . |
| 16 | For this we must rely to a great extent upon Soviet goodwill and if we make difficulty over returning their own nationals it will react adversely upon their willingness to help in restoring to us as soon as possible our own prisoners . " |
| 17 | What is clear is that if economic growth — which has already slowed down , particularly during the 1980s , in most of the industrial countries — continues to decline , while the claims of governments to legitimacy remain founded primarily upon their ability to promote such growth , then we can anticipate a period of increasing political instability and turbulence . |
| 18 | We will continue to depend heavily upon their help for the foreseeable future and gratefully acknowledge their invaluable help . |
| 19 | That the bishops were not united reflects adversely neither upon their integrity nor upon their leadership . |