Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] upon " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He turned , his eyes resting momentarily upon the dim , grey shape of the funerary couch .
3 Happily married couples , he thought , stood not face to face , absorbed in each other , but back to back , looking outwards upon the world .
4 By an incomes policy I take it that , for the purposes of our discussion , we mean an attempt to influence the value of money by operating directly upon specific prices ; and price of course includes earnings , i.e. the price of a quantity of labour in a particular application .
5 She stands squarely with her hands on her hips the whole time , beaming at Crilly and remarking often upon the colour of the sky .
6 Thus the Treaty and the subordinate Community legislation are made binding directly upon businesses and private individuals within Member States , and may also be used to challenge the governmental authorities and legislatures of Member States .
7 Poising acrobatically upon one leg then the other , Meh'Lindi proceeded to spray her body from toe to neck with black synthetic skin .
8 Thus John Locke distinguishes between ‘ reflection ’ , the mind 's turning inward upon itself , and ‘ sensation ’ , the source of our ideas of external objects .
9 They hoisted him into his saddle and bound him there , lying forward upon the beast 's neck with his arms lashed about it to hold him secure , and a folded cloak under his breast and cheek .
10 It seemed to Jehan as he watched Alexei 's face that the offworlder was reflecting inwardly upon the sum of his own knowledge , testing it against his belief in what was recorded in the books controlled by the Sechem .
11 I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear .
12 But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance .
13 … These rights , resting substantially upon contract , can only be lost or curtailed by such inequitable conduct on the part of a mortgagee … as may amount to a violation or culpable neglect of his duty under the contract .
14 It was literally carbonized , lacking a roof and rattling noisily upon four tyreless rims .
15 According to current theories , all of this is entirely predictable , depending solely upon the distance the Earth is from the Sun .
16 ‘ This ? ’ said Hugh , staring closely upon the stone .
17 Similarly in Lee v York Coach and Marine [ 1977 ] RTR 35 , the requirement of reasonable durability in the case of a second-hand car was recognised , the court drawing strongly upon the approach of the House of Lords in Lambert v Lewis [ 1982 ] AC 225 .
18 A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death .
19 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 ) .
20 Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands , for their legs could not bear them .
21 They felt that such schemes allowed young people to have direct experience of engineering rather than relying purely upon second-hand information ( from teachers or the media ) .
22 She was still breathing evenly upon both bottle and net , when suddenly the net expanded and then deflated with an abrupt whooshing sound .
23 This was because the field now included more subtle nasty strategies capable of preying ruthlessly upon such an out-and-out softy .
24 Such individuals , who would be described as good readers , are able to use the preceding context to reduce the number of possible words which could occur at the end of the sentence , making use of many sources of information and not relying exclusively upon any one source .
25 In these circumstances , he submits , relying principally upon the judgments of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. in Derby & Co .
26 It was falling on every part of the dark , sprawling conurbation , on the concrete motorways , and the treeless industrial estates , falling softly upon the lawns of the University campus and , further westward , upon the dark mutinous waters of the Rummidge-Wallsbury Canal .
27 Some of them were loyal and trusted men who had been with the Prince for years and , as well as relying heavily upon them , he liked them .
28 The regulatory enforcement agent in routine cases adopts a compliance strategy which follows a serial pattern , a loosely structured but none the less organized process relying heavily upon negotiated conformity , with a gradual increase in pressure being applied to the unco-operative .
29 The long opening movement of the Sixth Symphony is customarily played either as though all the cares of humanity were resting heavily upon its shoulders ( try the Previn/LSO on EMI ) or as a nerve-jangling protest against Stalinish suppression ( Moscow PO/Kondrashin on Chant du Monde ) .
30 The famous 1889 ‘ Appeal ’ against women 's suffrage , signed by 104 women , viewed women 's direct participation in national politics as impossible ‘ either by the disabilities of sex , or by strong formations of custom and habit resting ultimately upon physical difference against which it is useless to contend ’ ( my italics ) .
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