Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ‘ forget ’ pop is to renege fundamentally upon the ( over-determining ) intentions of punk . |
| 2 | As a result of this increased competition from sales promotional agencies , advertising agencies have tended , since the late 1970s , to concentrate more upon sales promotional activities , and have begun to offer sales promotion alongside advertising as an integrated promotional package . |
| 3 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 4 | There was another side to loving myself , that for me seemed to bear directly upon my cancer . |
| 5 | It may be that several disciplines can be brought to bear fruitfully upon an area ( Europe ) , period ( Enlightenment ) , problem ( traffic congestion ) , or theme ( Pastoral ) while still maintaining their distinct identity ; in which case the term ‘ multidisciplinary ’ ( OECD 1972 ) becomes appropriate . |
| 6 | If an adviser proposes to comment adversely upon the work of an individual teacher at a meeting he should inform the teacher and give him an opportunity to reply . |
| 7 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 8 | A further characteristic of earlier physical geography had been the tendency to ignore the Holocene and to concentrate instead upon earlier phases of landscape development . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |
| 10 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 11 | Moreover , Taking the Side of the Other relates to changes in the social context of public controversy , whereas attitude-change theorists have tended to concentrate primarily upon changes within the individual attitude-holder . |
| 12 | It is about ways of organising learning activities so that children expect and are able to help one another , to share ideas , to comment constructively upon one another 's work , to recognise and use one another 's resources in ways which support and enhance learning . |
| 13 | Nucella might be expected to select its prey in a frequency dependent manner ; that is , to feed indiscriminately upon the various potential prey species , taking them in their order of occurrence . |
| 14 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 15 | The real value of the results actually achieved has been a most gratifying surprise to everyone concerned , and it is easy , after the event , to reflect wisely upon the fact that a large percentage of the men must have served a long and painful apprenticeship , whilst on Military Service , to the art of transforming swamps into ‘ better 'oles ’ . |
| 16 | If the focus of attention were to dwell solely upon imports , a potential or existing member would hardly relish CU membership on a balance of trade basis . |
| 17 | Aethelbald is alleged in a ninth-century list of benefactions from Gloucester abbey to have slain the kinsman of a Mercian abbess ( CS 535 : S 1782 ) and his eventual assassination at Seckington , near Tamworth , by his own bodyguard in 757 ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) has tended to reflect unfavourably upon him . |
| 18 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 19 | They burnt Brighton in 1544 , forcing the settlement to grow finally upon the cliffs rather than down on the beach , threatened by the French and ‘ Neptune 's insatiate womb ’ . |
| 20 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 21 | It is one thing for a government to look benignly upon — say — a rescue of Ferranti ; or on the swallowing up of much smaller players in the defence business . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 25 | External debt continues to weigh heavily upon these countries . |
| 26 | There were tribunals which had jurisdiction if a certain state of facts existed but not otherwise ; it was not then for the inferior tribunal to determine conclusively upon the existence of such facts . |
| 27 | We shall notice in a little how he was to build further upon the foundations laid in 1927 , and what a distinctive theology resulted . |
| 28 | One of its major concerns has always been the securing and protection of fundamental human rights , and it sought to build further upon the UN Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948 . |
| 29 | The Regional Resource Centre at Exeter University Institute of Education hopes to build further upon the network possibilities in this respect , making the teachers ' centres the teacher-entry points to an informal organization of schools , colleges , polytechnics , the university and other agencies , including individuals in the community ( Walton and Ruck 1975 ) , and we shall be examining such possibilities in closer detail in a later chapter . |
| 30 | Nothing was disassembled or even disturbed , but in the end they had complete molecular images of us and the ship — which we would have to match perfectly upon departure . |