Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] upon the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Again we should insist upon the S.I . |
| 8 | The definition of public expenditure is by no means clear-cut and must depend upon the question at issue . |
| 9 | The plan must depend upon the patient 's wish for help and on what is feasible . |
| 10 | The answer to it must depend upon the axioms from which we begin . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps I should draw upon the comments made by a famous and long serving HMI , the poet Leonard Clark . |
| 13 | The engineer must decide upon the configuration of wells and the extraction method for optimal recovery . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the protector 's command , Denby must leave upon the morrow — he is the last of my own loyal retainers . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Analysis of liability in international law must rest upon the principles of State responsibility . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , effective self-governing Trusts and positive contract specification might rest upon the sort of information implicit in a resource management system . |
| 23 | In 1966 , the Court ruled that a publication which is not obscene might be regarded as such if distributed in a lascivious manner , and in 1968 , that the law 's jurisdiction did not ‘ reach into the privacy of one 's home … [ whereas ] public distribution … might intrude upon the sensibilities or privacy of the general public … ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us — for it is written ‘ Cursed be every one who hangs upon a tree ’ — so that in Christ Jesus the blessing accorded to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles , that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith' ( Gal. 3:14 ) . |
| 25 | Theoretically , it can serve as a source of ideas and insights which are of potential relevance for the formulation of principles : ideas emerging from disciplines devoted to the study of language and learning which might bear upon the definition of language as subject . |
| 26 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 27 | In Blaye , on the northern bank of the Gironde , the pilgrim could look upon the tomb of Roland , the hero of the Chanson de Roland , the most famous of all the chansons de geste . |
| 28 | As the dominant parties to the Peace Treaty the allies could insist upon the inclusion of the waiver clause which Germany was in no position to reject . |
| 29 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 30 | Just how the wave crosses the gap junction is unknown , but it could depend upon the diffusion of either calcium itself or InsP 3 . |