Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] upon the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it is not totally inappropriate that this sort of overlap should exist since RMI must build upon the data that exist within the service ; it can not be separate and unrelated to that which currently exists . |
| 2 | And there is even less agreement among secondary teachers of first-year pupils about how they should build upon the curriculum of top juniors . |
| 3 | It was obvious and natural that as the last report had dealt mostly with the more able pupils so its successor should focus upon the needs of the pupils of average and below-average ability — that 50 per cent of all pupils , in other words , who gave the Report its title , Half Our future . |
| 4 | More appropriate terms are warm , friendly , modern or stylish , and if our attention should focus upon the pattern or texture of the wallpaper or upholstery , this should always be in order to comment on the taste of the selector . |
| 5 | The scientist taking a more generalist view should concentrate upon the structure and magnitude at all levels of magnitude , fit detail into the general framework and , by endeavouring to identify relationships , believe that some knowledge of connected complexity is preferable to an even more detailed specialized knowledge . |
| 6 | For national liberation , greater emphasis must fall upon the independent existence of a nation . |
| 7 | One 's only logically appropriate stand when confronted with incomprehensibility is a demand for clarification ; belief , even with the best of good will , must wait upon the provision of a content to believe . |
| 8 | Again we should insist upon the S.I . |
| 9 | Note that the required yield should depend upon the projected covariance and that the finance literature usually uses historic data as the only available data upon which to base an assessment of the future covariance . |
| 10 | The plan must depend upon the patient 's wish for help and on what is feasible . |
| 11 | Therefore it can not exist simply from itself : it must depend upon the necessary being of God . |
| 12 | Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed . |
| 13 | The answer to it must depend upon the axioms from which we begin . |
| 14 | [ Since much of the value of this chapter must depend upon the concrete illustrations it gives , I have been forced to assume the reader 's knowledge of a certain amount of elementary law . |
| 15 | The definition of public expenditure is by no means clear-cut and must depend upon the question at issue . |
| 16 | The details of each restriction must depend upon the special circumstances of each firm . |
| 17 | Perhaps I should draw upon the comments made by a famous and long serving HMI , the poet Leonard Clark . |
| 18 | The engineer must decide upon the configuration of wells and the extraction method for optimal recovery . |
| 19 | But it must be admitted that this is not a very strong distinction , for in Dudley and Stephens the jury also found that ‘ at the time of the act there was no sail in sight , nor any reasonable prospect of relief ’ ; and it would seem that if the law recognises necessity as a defence it should proceed upon the facts as they appeared to the defendant at the time . |
| 20 | To port X apps over DataFocus must call upon the X portability solutions provided by Hummingbird and DEC otherwise the programs will not adopted a Windows look and feel . |
| 21 | By the protector 's command , Denby must leave upon the morrow — he is the last of my own loyal retainers . |
| 22 | Mr Pannick said those who had drafted the relevant EC directive in 1989 had ‘ in their wisdom thought there should be freedom of reception throughout the EC and one should rely upon the state from which the signal emanates to exercise appropriate controls ’ . |
| 23 | Most of these officials , apart from the land-officers , operated at the centre and the Crown had virtually no local bureaucracy : to enforce its commands it must rely upon the unpaid assistance of the propertied classes . |
| 24 | For the monocultural classroom , where students and teacher are from one culture , the situation is harder and must rely upon the teacher 's understanding of the language and culture he or she is teaching . |
| 25 | McNair gives no authority for this assertion , but it must rest upon the right of any State to protest against interference with its internationally protected rights . |
| 26 | Analysis of liability in international law must rest upon the principles of State responsibility . |
| 27 | That mine might graze upon the vacant Lay |
| 28 | A different vision of the company might draw upon the democratic ideal which inspires the relation of the citizen to the state . |
| 29 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , effective self-governing Trusts and positive contract specification might rest upon the sort of information implicit in a resource management system . |