Example sentences of "upon the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based upon the OS/2 2.0 workplace shell , also up on AIX ( UX No 423 ) . |
2 | In any particular case , what steps a prudent creditor should take will depend upon the circumstances existing and the state of knowledge in the creditor . |
3 | The precise interpretation of an ultimatum depends upon the circumstances prevailing at the time . |
4 | IMI plc 's Brook Street Computers Ltd , Guildford , Surrey , is now marketing Dataworks Corp 's Uniworks Unix MRP II manufacturing package in the UK : Uniworks is based upon the Unidata relational database . |
5 | The research will take a case study approach looking at : aeronautics , nuclear propulsion , missilery , avionics , information technologies , telecommunications , and aircraft propulsion ; areas which build upon the researchers previous work . |
6 | What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context . |
7 | Colleagues it 's now my pleasure to call upon the deputy General Secretary , Tom to move his section of the report and to address conference . |
8 | Asquith 's criticism of Lloyd George 's actions played upon the myth that |
9 | The meeting was the highest-level contact between the two countries since the end of the Korean War , but the USA stressed that it did not represent an upgrading of bilateral relations , but was a one-off event designed to impress upon the North Korean government the importance attached to the nuclear safeguards issue by the USA . |
10 | Furthermore , each child learned at a different pace in every subject area and this pace was uneven , reflecting the whole range of influences upon the child external to life in school . |
11 | Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs . |
12 | Concern was once more focused upon the bottom forty per cent who were likely to be , in the words of one report , the ‘ Untrained , Unqualified and Unemployed ’ ( National Youth Employment Council , 1974 ) . |
13 | Even when , sixteen years later in 1833 , he saw in trade unionism the instrument through which to establish industrial democracy , the change was to be painless , to steal upon the country unaware , ‘ like a thief in the night ’ . |
14 | It could not steal upon the country unaware , like a thief in the night . |
15 | Equally , however , there may be some circumstances where ‘ strong ’ government amounts to nothing more than the power to force upon the country crass , stupid and mistaken policies lacking even the virtue of endorsement by a majority of , presumably , misguided electors . |
16 | Until the RAF was carrying atomic bombs , the First Pillar of British grand strategy — the defence of the United Kingdom — depended upon the US Strategic Air Command . |
17 | The second is that there is now an impact upon the US domestic money supply . |
18 | Farmers may be able to pass on low prices in the form of low wages but this depends upon the conditions prevailing in the labour market in their area . |
19 | An annual payment is made , the amount depending upon the animal concerned . |
20 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
21 | Although the post-Petrine State was much more formidable than that of Muscovy , there remained very real constraints upon the options open to the Tsar . |
22 | When this happens the organisation will insist upon the workers concerned signing a document acknowledging their own responsibility for tax . |
23 | This chapter will be principally concerned with the judicial constraints imposed upon the Y level . |
24 | Social security contributions are now imposed upon the employer equal to the vertical distance D1D2 , reducing labour demand to D1 . |
25 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
26 | Initial research suggests , for example , that black students in Further Education colleges may view education in a utilitarian manner , placing more emphasis upon the credentials available within FE than upon their culturally specific or anti-racist provision ( FEU , 1985a ; Reeves , 1986 ) . |
27 | Now , the fact that a criminal offence is committed by a trader or creditor does not confer upon the consumer any right to bring an action or obtain redress in the civil courts . |
28 | These all create criminal offences ; they all provide similar defences to the accused ; they confer powers of enforcement upon local weights and measures authorities ; and the Fair Trading Act confers powers and duties upon the Director General of Fair Trading . |
29 | This teaching is based upon the dignity proper to all individuals by virtue of their having been created by God and redeemed by Jesus Christ . |
30 | In presenting a statement which attempts to generalize upon the research great care must be taken as to what is said . |